Meaning Quotes - page 2

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. (Stanley Kubrick)
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' View quote
Cesare Lombroso
All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. View quote
Guy Debord
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. View quote
Bertrand Russell
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. View quote
Václav Havel
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. (Václav Havel)
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. View quote
Václav Havel
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. View quote
Anthony Robbins
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. View quote
Carl Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. View quote
Carl Jung
I don't suppose that applies so much to other physicists; I think it's a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do. View quote
Paul Dirac
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. View quote
Helen Garner
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. View quote
Andy Warhol
The sea has neither meaning nor pity. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. (Eric Hoffer)
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. View quote
Paul Kurtz
The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. View quote
Carroll Quigley
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. View quote
Ben Carson