Top 1200 Meaning Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I think meaning is something that's really unnecessary in music, at least for me.

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

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

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

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.

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

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

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

Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.

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

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

If I was in a bad mood, then maybe I won't talk about it, but you're going to know about it somehow. If something was bothering me, maybe I would have acted a little bit like a child, meaning I go break something in a room.

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

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.

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

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.

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

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

I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else - its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated.

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

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

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

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

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

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

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

I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.

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

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

Sometimes in your life you just meet someone or hear something that nudges you on the right path. And that becomes the best advice. It could just be a bit of commonsense said in a way that resonates with something in you. It's nothing new, but because it connects with you it holds meaning for you.

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

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

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.

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.

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.

Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world. In this lies the power and the meaning of spiritual companionship.

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

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

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

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

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

Now, we know this is what [H.P.] Lovecraft was into. Because he kept talking about how he wasn't interested in religion. In a heaven state there is no religion, meaning that you're seeing the whole thing ... I mean, to worship something means that it's something beyond you, right? In other words, it's not being revealed to you.

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

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

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I want to give you something.” He slid the ring off his finger. “Up until this week, I’ve never wanted anything more in my life than to wear this ring. Not as a piece of jewelry, but because I thought I could find meaning in saving others, in being a hero. But the meaning I’ve finally found in my life is from meeting you.” He set the ring on the palm of his hand and held it out. “I want you to have it.

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