1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Meaning is stacking melodies on top of each other. Meaning transcends the music it is constructed from.

Computational geometry and the translation of meaning across domains. I am not looking for the answers, I'm looking for the questions.

I let you find all those polytheistic truths yourself; life in them, find the joy in them, and even sorrow. But in these joys and sorrows rest content with the thought that they give meaning to our world.

It was astonishing how much meaning could be crammed into a single word. How did such words not crumble under their own weight?

She had been trapped into saying something she did not mean.

If integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is watching, and there is never a private moment, integrity becomes impossible. What are we left with?

Writing is a pastime, an obsession, something to do. Why make anything more of it?

Beware the treachery of words... Words seem to be well-woven baskets ready to hold your meaning, but they betray you with rotted corners and splintered stays.

This is how memory works: not as a transcription but as an attempt—as an essay is an attempt . . . to locate meaning between the irretrievable then and the equally unfathomable now.