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Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs,… — Clifford Geertz
Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all… — Daniel Tammet
The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men.… — Woodrow Wilson
We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that… — Cesar Chavez
This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We… — Cesar Chavez
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be… — Stanislav Grof
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. — J. G. Holland
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away. — Joseph Wood Krutch
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. — Philip Wylie
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as… — James Madison
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction. — Mae West
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn. — Robert H. Jackson
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in… — Charles Darwin
If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet. — Wolfgang Pauli
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on… — Joseph Wood Krutch
It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to… — Max Lerner
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons… — Lionel Trilling
To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all… — Ernest Becker
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics. — Frank Ocean
Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you. — Susan Jeffers
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity...when we… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We had the experience, but we missed the meaning. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow… — Carl Jung

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