#meaning

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#language #life #lives #may #meaning

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#hair #indie #meaningless #means #now

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#belly #essential #famous #fire #meaningless

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#man #meanings #nothing #other #principal

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. ↗

— Robert Musil

#actuality #along #always #average #awakens

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#first #insight #kind #look #looking

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#live #meaning #some #suffer #suffering

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#after #art #audience #beauty #decade

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#because #daughter #going #had #i

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. ↗

— Plato

#must #particulars #universals