#meaning

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!' ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#answer #ask #busy #cheerful #course

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning. ↗

— John W. Dawson

#areas #identical #languages #meaning #multitudes

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. ↗

— John Dewey

#changing #comes #each #endeavor #experience

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down. ↗

— Rob Ryser

#existence #existential #identity #meaning #origin

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#control #manipulation #meaning #meaning of #must

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#apply #build #evil #good #how

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#hidden #know #meaning #must #philosophy

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. ↗

— William Greider

#covering #drama #essentially #events #human

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. ↗

— George Herbert

#good #hell #hell is #meanings

The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream. ↗

— David Mutti Clark

#dream #meaning #reality #spirituality #dreams