#mean

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#child

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ↗

— Guy Debord

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#nonsense #attention

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#conflict #hands #means #neutral #powerful

What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition? ↗

— Albert Camus

#unity

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#meaning #words #voice

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. ↗

— George Sand

#give #guard #hesitation #how #kindness

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#frankl #meaning #viktor #behavior

Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#hush #nora #patch #meaning

I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#flaws #looks #pretty #meaning