Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.
One writes to find words' meanings.
Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.
This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings. . . . Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.
Humanism has many meanings, but what attracts me about it is that it encourages men and women to take a broad view of situations and to think about them from on-the-ground perspectives rather than through theoretical and conceptual lenses.
Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.
My job is to tell good stories, convey meanings, invoke emotion as well as I can. I'd rather be doing that than anything else.
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.
There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations. " But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way. ’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy
All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.