M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”
“Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.”
“Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them”
Source: The Dive from Clausen's Pier
“Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most concerned with, reading the sentences aloud in Spanish to make sure they sound the way I want them to. To be honest, I much prefer being translated into Greek or Japanese; in those cases, you have no way of being involved, and no pressure.”
“Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There are no absolutes, there is no meaning without relationships, everything is not only interacting but interdependent. The kahunas use this idea to help give a person a powerfully secure sense of significance, while at the same time teaching him that to heal himself is to heal the world, and to heal the world is to heal himself. This is not a loss of individuality, but an understanding that individuality itself is a relationship with the environment.”
“Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.”
“Meaning coming from feeling, feeling coming from within, you absorb a massive amount of information, it goes through your whole body, a little bit of it floats up to your head where there is deliberation. You are conditioned by the way your whole body is responding to what is going on.”
“Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.”
“Meaning doesn’t remain in place—it’s drawn inward, pulled together by something deeper than consciousness: a noetic force.”
Source: Noetic Gravity
“Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.”
Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely.”
“Meaning follows courage.”
“Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.”
Source: Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
“Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.”
“Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless”
Source: On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
“Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the reward represents.”
“Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.”
Source: Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
“Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction.... Language is the vehicle through which we create our understanding of the world.”
“Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.”
“Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.”
“Meaning is not found in passivity. You must track it down with fervent pursuit and fierce endurance. Meaning must be earned.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“Meaning is not found in things; meaning is what you make of things.”
Source: Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life
“Meaning is not in things but in between them.”
Source: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition
“Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.”
“Meaning is optional.”
Source: Pointless
“Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.”
“Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.”
“Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.”
“Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.”
Source: Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine
“Meaning isn't something you find through philosophical inquiry. It's something that automatically emerges when your navigation system works and you trust what it tells you.”
“Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.”
“Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.”
“Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.”
“Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.”
“Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.”
“Meaning of the "White House" to the war victim children of Syria or Palestine is nothing but just a white-painted house. Perhaps, they imagine Casper lives there...or maybe some dead people. They really don't have time to think about it. Because they are busy discovering their own bloody limbs along with their parents' dead bodies from the ashes of their burnt homes.”
“Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.”
“Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.”
Source: Introduction to Christianity
“meaning to life and what we and others do in it. Else, in a godless paradigm, it is just a game of survival of the fittest. Animals play it as well as humans with no difference between the two in the godless view of life.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“Meaning to send a thank-you note but then not doing it is exactly the same as never thinking to send one - that person is still receiving zero thank you notes.”
“Meaning was not reducible to language. But if it couldn't be spoken about, how could it exist?”
Source: Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
“Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open." Have you been watching Oprah again?”
“Meaning, however, is no great matter.”
Source: Fly leaves, by C.S.C.
“Meaning, I need you to focus. If you want to save Madaug, you need to listen to me or the mortents will eat both of you Pop-Tarts for breakfast. (Ambrose)”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after.”
Source: No More Secondhand Art
“Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.”
Source: Chime
“Meaningful advice, like good sex, has to be desired; and remains consensual
Anything forced is an assault that debatably deserves death.”
Source: I Killed the Golden Goose : A COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS, THOUGHTLESSNESS, SILENCES, POEMS & SOME ‘SHOT’ STORIES
“Meaningful decisions are expensive because they demand different lessons for your growth and maturity.”