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We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food.
I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.
I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning 'full of the spirit.' I do believe that it comes to you.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
It isn't true, in any conventional meaning of the term, that the United States or its NATO partners 'invaded' Afghanistan.
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
We did want to stand for something, not just cute girls with cute concepts. Everything we talk about has meaning behind it.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.
Choir singing's a wonderful thing for what ails you. There's a lot of meaning in a hymn if you think about it when you're singing it.
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.
That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.