Top 1200 Symbolic Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. 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. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

The meaning of life is to see.

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. When we find new eyes, the unsuspected blessing in work we have done for many years may take us completely by surprise. We can see life in many ways: with the eye, with the mind, with the intuition. But perhaps it is only those who speak the language of meaning, who have remembered how to see with the heart, that life is ever deeply known or served.

Learning is the making of meaning.

There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute.

To order space is to give it meaning.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

That's the meaning of 'The Revenant': It's a return from death.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It's something we've got to live with

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

Words have meaning, type has spirit.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

Life without pain has no meaning.

The line comes before meaning.

There is no meaning to light if there is no darkness.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

Rhythm must have meaning.

There is One God. We have an epistemic center. There is meaning.

The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, all are empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be out master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers.

I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.

Hear the meaning within the word.

One of the reasons I love language is that concerning semiotics, language is an arbitrary sign system, which means the signs within it are free-floating, but we put them in a certain order to get them to have meaning for us. If we left them alone, they'd be like water, like the ocean. It would be just this vast field of free-floating matter or signs, so in this way, I think language and water have much in common. It's only us bringing grammar and syntax and diction and the human need for meaning that orders language, hierarchizes it.

Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

What is there to understand? The significance of life? How long will it take to understand the significance and the meaning of life? 20 years? 30 years? And the same question will be here in another 20 years, I guarantee you. Until you stop asking that question. When that question is not there, you are there. So that's the reason why you keep asking the question: you do not want the question to come to an end. When that comes to an end, there will not be anybody, left there, to find out the meaning, the purpose and the significance of life.

What touches your heart is meaning.

Culture is public, because meaning is

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

The tears of God are the meaning of history

Truth implies meaning.

The meaning lies in the appropriation.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

Love, life, meaning...over.

Despair is suffering without meaning.

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.

The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed to cause injuries. Vietnam, nuclear weapons, police out of control are intentional forms of violence. The violence from the Right is aimed directly at people and the violence from the Left is aimed at institutions and symbols.

Meaning is not in things but in between them.

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

In the beginngless beginning there was the Meaning

I don't indulge in double meaning humor.

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.

Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.