Meaning Quotes

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

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.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

He taught readers that they deserve beauty and meaning and must demand it in their cities. He taught me, and many architects, that we must answer this demand and never stop challenging ourselves.

Oh the games people play now, every night and every day now, never meaning what they say now, never saying what they mean.

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

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

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

Man - a being in search of meaning.

I love the national anthem. I'm a veteran, and it just has a special meaning.

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.'.

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through.