Quotes about Meaning

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there are hope.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.

Mere words.. Was there anything so real as words?

Was there anything so real as words?

My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days.

The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us. As long as a thing is useful or necessary to us...it is outside the proper sphere of art.

And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.

The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away

How do you fan the fires of faith in your message? By exploring all phases of your subject, grasping its deeper meanings, and asking yourself how your talk will help the audience to be better people for having listened to you.