Meaning

(308 votes)   How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(283 votes)   I am a part of all that I have met.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(217 votes)   Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(194 votes)   Waste Not Want Not

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(179 votes)   Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(163 votes)   Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(158 votes)   Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Doug Horton

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(146 votes)   After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(133 votes)   Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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(128 votes)   Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(121 votes)   The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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(120 votes)   The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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(119 votes)   The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

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(119 votes)   This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Werner Erhard
American Entrepreneur

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(113 votes)   If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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