#meaning

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. ↗

— Paul Kurtz

#contrary #creatively #death #discovered #eating

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. ↗

— Lucy Lawless

#existence #give #i #i am #indicate

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#both #god #his #i #knew

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#itself #loves #meaning #meaning of #mind

Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot. ↗

— Michael Mann

#cannot #choices #controls #could #creativity

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. ↗

— Christopher McCandless

#means #personal #personal relationship #phenomenon #relationship

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#asking #audience #deconstruction #fashion #gratuitous

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #intelligence #maurice-sendak #meaning #art

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#interesting #meaningful #imagination

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#activity #am #anything #disorder #freedom