172 quotes found
“Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.”
“Man is a world-forming being, a being that actively constitutes his own world, but when everything is always already fully coded, the active constituting of the world is made superuous, and we lose...”
“Once he gets to the fort the colonel turns to John Wayne and says, "I did see a few Indians on the way over here." And John Wayne, with this really cool look on his face, replies, 'Don't worry. If ...”
“If Thecla had symbolized love of which I felt myself undeserving, as I know now that she did, then did her symbolic force disappear when I locked the door of her cell behind me? That would be like ...”
“Why, what is it, how can flesh and blood come up with such stuff, how can flesh feel it. My lord life is strange. How is that Meaning comes to be? How? How does life cast it up, shape it, exude it;...”
“I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning.”
“Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page but then the world is t...”
“The word "preacher" comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the purpose of a prophet except to find meaning in trouble?”
“The core is harmonic regularity, the outer darkness is random noise, we are in the space between them. Every engine takes advantage of a difference. These two extremes are woven into each other. Th...”
“The density of meaning is external and context dependent.”
“Meaning comes from the unknown, from the stranger, from the unpredictable that suddenly knocks at your door a flower that suddenly blooms and you never expected it; a friend that suddenly happens ...”
“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning.”
“The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.”
“Make it simple, but significant.”
“Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it.”
“Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impart...”
“Too many seek the good life, whereas only a life of meaning will satisfy the existential ache within our breasts that begs the question of why we are here, what we are to do with this life, and acc...”
“Thank you. Ive said thank you thousands of times in my life. Most of the time I mean it to some degree. There are times when Ive said it and felt the gratitude behind the words wholeheartedly, but ...”
“We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go.”
“But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.”
