Meaning Quotes

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

~ Christian De Portzamparc

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

~ Paul Tillich

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

~ Paul Tillich

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

~ Nathaniel Philbrick

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

~ Aristotle Onassis

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

~ George F. Kennan

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

~ Hermann Hesse

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

~ Virginia Woolf

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.

~ Tony Robbins

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

~ Carol P. Christ

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

~ Nelson Rockefeller

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

~ Erich Fromm

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

~ Christopher Mccandless

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

~ Eleonora Duse

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

~ John Stuart Mill

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

~ Václav Havel

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

~ Thomas Lynch

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

~ George Orwell

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

~ Martha Beck

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.

~ Kelly Mccreary

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

~ Anaïs Nin

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

~ Herbert Gold

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

~ Sharon Salzberg

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

~ H. G. Wells

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

~ Dr. Seuss

Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals.

~ Lysander Spooner

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

~ Virginia Postrel

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.

~ Paul Rand

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

~ Steve Jobs

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

~ Barbara Kruger

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

~ Rachel Roy

Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.

~ Dean Ornish

I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.

~ Kailash Kher

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

~ Katy Perry

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

~ Stephen Sondheim

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.

~ Anaïs Nin

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

~ Andy Warhol

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

~ Miguel De Unamuno