1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Discussing the system of objects, Baudrillard focuses on the relationship between connotation (external) and denotation (internal) to the system; yet in addressing the Pompidou Centre, both are collapsed into an oversized commodity whose signifier/ signified (aka form/ function) relationship is unstable.

It is not intuitive why all this is intuitive.

By studying the human signifying activity it influences its course.

You spend a life seeking the Opportunity, without realizing that the decisive moment, the moment that justifies birth and death, has already passed. It will not return, but it was - full, dazzling, generous as every revelation.

If you believe in gravity, you already believe in something higher than yourself.

Every time you challenge God in your head, you question your understanding of Him. Keep seeking and you shall find.

Life ain't your circumstance.

For those people who love without knowing the meaning of love, they are the ones who come to hate love at the very end.

Nothing is more certain than that this trope [metaphor], when temperately and appositely used, serves to add light to the expression and energy to the sentiment. On the contrary, when vaguely and intemperately used, nothing can serve more effectually to cloud the sense, where there is sense, and by consequence to conceal the defect, where there is no sense to show.