Quotes about Meaning

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
-Aristotle

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"
-Chuck Palahniuk

"You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity."
-Matt Groening

"Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries."
-Clifford Stoll

"When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective."
-Arundhati Roy

"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
-George Orwell

"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
-Carl Jung

"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. "
-Carl Jung

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
-Carl Jung

"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."
-William Shakespeare

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. "
-Epictetus

"Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence."
-Storm Jameson

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
-Benjamin Franklin

"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. Schulz

"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."
-Les Brown

"The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God."
-Deepak Chopra

"Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express."
-William Cobbett

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
-Albert Camus

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
-Hermann Hesse

"Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself."
-Gore Vidal

"James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning."
-Ayn Rand

"Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation."
-Alexander Hamilton

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt

"Discouraged work seekers decreased by 512 000, meaning more people looked for work."
-Liz Gavin

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
-Philip K. Dick

"We want to develop a battery that has a graceful failure - meaning that if it's damaged, it won't cause other problems. We have to understand how batteries fail and why they fail."
-Dan Doughty

"Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning."
-Heizo Takenaka

"What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself."
-Karl Rahner