#meanings

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#interpret #listener #meanings #music #own

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

#experience #into #like #meanings #shell

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. ↗

— George Saunders

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To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. ↗

— George H. Mead

#appreciation #art #attitude #become #enjoyed

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #life #love #meanings #paulo-coelho

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. ↗

— George Herbert

#good #hell #hell is #meanings