Essential Meaning Quotes
- A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. — Leonard Bernstein
- All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. — Brian Swimme
- No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real… — Pearl S. Buck
- The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad. — Stephen Cohen