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#meaning

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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.


Camille Paglia


#believe #change #continuing #economic #economic forces

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.


Evan Parker


#different #different things #difficult #enough #even

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.


Walter Pater


#beauty #been #between #discriminate #discussions

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.


Pope Paul VI


#art #considered #crystal #deepest #devoid

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.


River Phoenix


#best #best work #big #big hit #coast

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.


Kenneth L. Pike


#behavior #could #did #language #meaning

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.


Elvis Presley


#came #got #had #know #lyrics

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.


Marcel Proust


#change #course #drastically #meanings #minds

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.


Karl Rahner


#body #christ #explicit #expression #gives

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.


Otto Rank


#civilization #come #creativity #foundation #her






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