Quotes about Meaning

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

The soul is awakened through service.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried--that is history. He loved me and gave Himself for me--that is doctrine. Such was the Christianity of the primitive Church.

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that he wrote it, wrote a Word so long we have yet to come to the end of it? May it not be that God continually writes the world, the world and all that is in it?