Meaning Quotes - page 10

Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning-and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action. (Georges Bataille)
The preceding criticism ... justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated” celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality. View quote
Georges Bataille
Some students of philosophy have unreasonably high expectations of the subject. They expect it to provide them with a complete and detailed picture of the human predicament. They think that philosophy will reveal to them the meaning of life, and explain to them every facet of our complex existences. Now, although studying philosophy can illuminate fundamental questions about our lives, it does not provide anything like a complete picture, if indeed there could be such a thing. Studying philosophy isn't an alternative to studying art, literature, history, psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics, and science. View quote
Nigel Warburton
Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious. The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props. View quote
Timothy Leary
Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp. View quote
Roger Ebert
I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning; for the implicit function as well as the explicit function. View quote
Robert Venturi
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful. View quote
Kim Novak
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again. View quote
Peter Medawar
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. (Nicholas Sparks)
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. View quote
Anaïs Nin
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. View quote
Anaïs Nin
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. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning. View quote
Devendra Banhart
What is the short meaning of the long speech? View quote
Friedrich Schiller
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning. View quote
Clarice Lispector
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life. View quote
Alfred Jules Ayer
A successful industrial nation, meaning a nation with future, can not be organized as a collective holiday resort. (Helmut Kohl)
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. View quote
Camille Paglia
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full and useful employment, health, and the creation of those circumstances in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life. View quote
Saul Alinsky
You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers of selection and wind up being a pretty poor judge of character and quality. If anything is used too freely it loses its true meaning. Therefore, the Satanist believes you should love strongly and completely those who deserve your love, but never turn the other cheek to your enemy! View quote
Anton LaVey