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examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name “philosophy” indicates that “philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different meanings through the years, and from one school or movement to another.

~ Gregory B. Sadler

Gregory B. Sadler Definition History History Of Philosophy Meaning Philosophy

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry Meaning Themselves Things

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

~ Mark Mckinnon

Mark Mckinnon Together Lost Meaning

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

~ Kevin Plank

Kevin Plank Brand Yourself Meaning

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

~ Richard Bach

Richard Bach Life Fear Meaning

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

~ Jim Woodring

Jim Woodring Nature Fish Meaning

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

~ Jane Roberts

Jane Roberts Meaning Events Dreaming

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

~ Paracelsus

Paracelsus Meaning Fantasy

My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

Tullian Tchividjian Freedom Value Meaning

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

~ Solomon Asch

Solomon Asch Thinking Meaning See

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

~ Alan Alda

Alan Alda Art Live Meaning

Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joseph B. Wirthlin Knowledge World Meaning

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

~ Epictetus

Epictetus Speak Meaning You

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg People Meaning Think

If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.

~ Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil Words Meaning You

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis Eyes Darkness Meaning

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

~ Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson Song Me Meaning

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

~ Caroline Kennedy

Caroline Kennedy Effort Meaning You

My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

~ Mallory Jansen

Mallory Jansen Dinner Meaning Story

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

~ Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Life Purpose Meaning

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

~ Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor Meaning Story Circle

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

~ Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet Money Women Meaning

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

~ Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen Business Meaning Rock Star

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

~ Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov Sea Meaning Pity

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.

~ Helen Garner

Helen Garner Rain Fall Meaning

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

~ Wynn Bullock

Wynn Bullock Tree Me Meaning

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

~ Craig Ferguson

Craig Ferguson School High School Meaning

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

~ Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu Life Strong Meaning

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

~ James Balog

James Balog Humility Trees Meaning

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

~ Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil Time Value Meaning

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

~ Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson Ending Meaning Timing

Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.

~ Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom Marriage People Meaning

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

Bryant H. Mcgill Society American Meaning

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

Stanley Kubrick Movies Meaning Emotion

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

~ Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland Words Problem Meaning

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

~ Barbara De Angelis

Barbara De Angelis Life Unique Meaning

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

~ Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonov Meaning Materialism Will

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

~ Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer Purpose Me Meaning

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

~ Carl Jung

Carl Jung Life Meaning Grow

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

~ Edward M. Lerner

Edward M. Lerner Help Meaning Human
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