Original Meaning Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to… — Susan Sontag
There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will… — Adolf Hitler
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually… — Sigmund Freud
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of… — William Robertson Smith
The word relationship is beautiful. The original meaning of the root from which the word to relate comes is exactly the same as to respond.… — Rajneesh
It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so… — Yi Mun-yol
Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least,… — Dan Rather
I think jeans have gotten away from the original meaning, that symbol of freedom; they've gone gimmicky and turned into a status item. Our denim… — Johan Lindeberg
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning… — Eric Liu
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted… — Brion Gysin
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong… — William Robertson Smith

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