1,900 Quotes About Meaning

In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough to give it a meaning, a subjective meaning, a meaning exclusively important for the navigator himself.

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.

If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live.

No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum of the parts, right? I see one hunk of metal and then another, and the puzzle opens. They turn in my mind and just make sense. Together they all mean something.

Give a reason for your existence and make a life out of it.