#meaning

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#any #failed #government #lib #meaningful

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#live #meaning #some #suffer #suffering

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. ↗

— George Orwell

#any #call #claim #consequently #country

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

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning. ↗

— Katy Perry

#girl #i #meaning #quirky #songs

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#filling #food #full #hardly #incidental

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#beasts #does #every #give #his

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical