1,900 Quotes About Meaning

There's really only two emotions that count, and that's love and that's fear. And in all of your movements through life, you're either moving in the direction of one or the other. In order to have a meaningful life, you have to choose love.

…the extent of Ronchamp’s resemblance to other things is exceptionally broad. Nor is it only an issue of extent. More is at stake. The nature of the building alters drastically when what it resembles cannot be traced back to Le Corbusier’s mind; it becomes less predictable and its meaning is less stable.

The myth sovereign in the old age was that everything means everything. The myth sovereign in the new is that nothing means anything.

When you don't have all the answers you just have to make do with the ones that you do have.

That’s the power of meaning. We can tolerate any suffering, if we know why.And not knowing why is, itself, a profound type of suffering.

A text always remains in crucial ways ‘imperceptible’.

A text is a ‘fabric of traces’ governed by a logic of the ‘nonpresent remainder’, by what thus figures the impossibility of pure presence, the impossibility of absolute plenitude of meaning or intention.

What is frequently appreciated in many so-called symbols is exactly their vagueness, their openness, their fruitful ineffectiveness to express a 'final' meaning, so that with symbols and by symbols one indicates what is always beyond one's reach.

Form betrays. Form can betray. What matter, if the eternal meaning retains its true value.