Top 1200 Search For Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.

I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

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.

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.

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.

Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.

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

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

If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him and to find repose in adhering to Him-man cannot search for Him and attain Him in this sensible and corporeal world, since God is spirit rather than body, and cannot be attained in intellectual abstraction, since one is able to conceive nothing similar to God, as he asserts-how can one, therefore, search for Him in order to find Him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE

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

Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

"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.

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

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

China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed. And where China goes, others, also informed by different values, are already and will follow.

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

Users are trying to discover apps; we are trying to improve the app discovery process, and developers are trying to reach users. If you step back, it's a problem we solved with search and ads in search.

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

There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness.

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

As every newspaper reader, liberal activist, or parliamentary junkie knows, the overarching barrier to most of Obama's agenda is the abuse of the filibuster in the Senate. In fact, several of Obama's second term priorities are not ideas in search of a majority - they are majorities in search of an up-or-down vote.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

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

The moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us. And saves us.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

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

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

Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude

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

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

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.

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