Quotes with meaning

Quotes 101 till 120 of 220.

  • Bhumibol Adulyadej It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Philip Roth It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Max Frisch It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
    Max Frisch
    Swiss writer (1911 - 1991)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alan Cohen Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Paul Gauguin Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Henry Miller Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Les Brown Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Thomas Merton Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Plato Man is a being in search of meaning.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Aristotle Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • David Mitchell Maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Hermann Hesse Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Oscar Wilde Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Richard M. DeVos Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Eric Hoffer More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • James Thurber My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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