Top 1200 Double Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.

What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.

There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word or sentence or anything language-like, can't intelligibly be said to have meaning. An encouraging development in the last couple of decades is a return by philosophers to addressing - as nearly all people do at some time or another - the question of life's meaning.

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

Fame doesn't make it hard to date, because I could be seeing someone now and no-one would know. But if you go out with someone who's in the public eye you're asking for trouble. It's double intensity, double scrutiny. Even if I just went on one date with a normal guy, word gets around and that freaks me out. I don't like all that gossipy stuff.

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.

The sticker has no meaning, but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning.

The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.

The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.

She glanced rapidly between them, blinking and hoping her double vision would go away. They were glaring at each other. Would they fight? If she saw her own double she probably be tempted to punch it once or twice. Especially today. For being so stupid.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.

The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]

A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way), I feel a pensiveness within. This pensiveness gives my life a quality that might be best described as bittersweet. And those moments take on double meaning and richness - because they are here now - and because they will not always be.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

When I was a kid, my pop used to take me to the double feature. He would take me - I had two brothers - and we used to go in the early '80s and check out these grindhouse movies - a double feature, sometimes a triple feature.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an essentially linguistic phenomenon. Whether as a result of simply listening to everyday talk about meaning, or reading books of anthropology, sociology and art history, it dawned on me that there is nothing at all privileged or central about linguistic meaning.

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.