Quotes about Meaning
Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.
- CS Lewis
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
- John Updike
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
- Aldous Huxley
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
- Aristotle
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.
- Carl Jung
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
- Viktor E. Frankl
This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.
- Jennifer Lopez
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
- Dale Carnegie
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
- Marcus Aurelius
The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
- Carl Jung
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
- John Tillotson
When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.
- Charles Swindoll