Quotes with meaning

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  • Bethany Kennedy Scanlon The word of God is God, and therefore has to be revealed to you by God. When God's Holy Spirit reveals to you the meaning of His word, then you will recognize the truth of His word.
    Born of the Spirit
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  • Felix Frankfurter The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Anish Kapoor The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Thornton Wilder There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Ben Carson There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Erich Fromm There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Bill McKibben These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
    Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Leo Buscaglia Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Arvo Part Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
    Arvo Part
    Estonian composer
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  • Abraham Kaplan To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Confucius To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Anais Nin Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet -a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Andy Rooney Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Earl Nightingale We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Arthur Middleton We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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