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Meaning Quotes by Eric Maisel
- Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
- If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw…
- Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are… — George Orwell
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams
- I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some… — Toni Cade Bambara
- I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people. — Syd Barrett