Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
If you had to pick the values that would be held dear to a broad number of Hispanic voters, access to opportunity would be a higher value than guarantee of security, particularly amongst the newly arrived, meaning the last 20 years.
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.
I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.
Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.
Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list.
A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.
In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and from all that retinal painting.
A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
