172 quotes found
“That's the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.”
“[Your] search for meaning in the world... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place.”
“He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.”
“Or, maybe what really mattered was that game of Crazy 8s.”
“The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.”
“We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.”
“Overrated is order.”
“Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece o...”
“Everything did mean something.”
“I don't know what you mean, but I know that you mean it.(attrib: 'Edward', Appendix 2)”
“It's basically a joke." "I think it's cool," Julian says. "It's all about control, right?" He considers something. "It's not a joke. You should take it seriously. I mean, you're also one of the pro...”
“Suddenly she bent down and kissed his fingers and went quickly away. But he sat for a long time in the gathering clouds trembling with happiness and trying to penetrate into the meaning of these th...”
“The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.”
“The search for meaning in our lives takes us on paths large and small. When we go beyond ourselves-whether in forgiveness, unselfishness, thoughtfulness, generosity and understanding toward others-...”
“Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.”
“Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do som...”
“I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's the same with this film - if 300 people are in a cinema watching it, they will all see a different ...”
“Whether you believe in God or are an atheist, you cannot deny that the empirical facts of science have nothing to do with whether or not freedom and good are real or worth destroying ourselves for....”
“The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.”
“Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.”
