1,900 Quotes About Meaning


  • Author Lewis Carroll
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    Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

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  • Author Rory Sutherland
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    All powerful messages must contain an element of absurdity, illogicality, costliness, disproportion, inefficiency, scarcity, difficulty or extravagance – because rational behaviour and talk, for all their strengths, convey no meaning.[...] Meaning is conveyed by the things we do that are not in our own short-term self-interest – by the costs that we incur and the risks we take.

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