Significance Quotes
Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.
It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.
Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.
THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.
When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.
Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment
It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.
The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.
That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.
You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence...
I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.
It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.
Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.
Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.
Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.
If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.
The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.
