Meanings Quotes
329 quotes by 290 authors
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can…
— Henri Bergson
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion…
— David Bohm
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare…
— Richard Bach
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Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
— James Russell Lowell
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For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for…
— Mary Caroline Richards
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For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper,…
— Edgar Cayce
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[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men…
— Clifford Geertz
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Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But…
— Ralph Levy
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Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of…
— Hilla von Rebay
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According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh and often petty…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.
— Jean Aitchison
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
— Evelyn Waugh
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One writes to find words' meanings.
— Joy Williams
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and…
— M R DeHaan
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I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a…
— Paul Simon
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The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison…
— Michelle Alexander
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