Anthropology Quote by David E. Cooper

It turns out, in fact, that 'theories of meaning' are typically not about meaning in an everyday or 'folk' sense at all. They are…

— David E. Cooper

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean,…

— Win Butler

Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction.... Language is the vehicle through which we…

— Diana Whitney

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus:…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.

— Neale Donald Walsch

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my…

— Michael J. Knowles

The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse…

— Richard M. Weaver

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.

— Andrew Lakey

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

— Rajneesh

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a…

— Gao Xingjian

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

— Irvin D. Yalom

“A word's meaning depends not so much on its linguistic past but rather on the place the word occupies in relation to the general…

— Anonymous