Meaning Quotes & Sayings

Meaning Quotes & Sayings

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Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence. - Edgar Z. Friedenberg



There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. - Thornton Niven Wilder



It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. - Albert Einstein



If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? - Saint Augustine



The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. - Erich Fromm



What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. - Barbara De Angelis



We must control anger and hatred in ourselves. And as we learn to remain in peace, then we can demonstrate in society in a way that makes a real statement for world peace. If we ourselves remain always angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. So, you see, first our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we must teach the rest of the world. - Dalai Lama



Jazz is rhythm and meaning. - Henri Matisse



I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. - Andy Warhol



All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. - Roland Barthes



Man, a being in search of meaning. - Plato



Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. - Anais Nin



Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided, a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. - Dag Hammarskjold



If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. - Mae West



My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right. - Charles M. Schultz