Hidden Meaning Quotes

• Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  World, This World

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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

  Maxim Gorky

  Philosophy, Knows

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• When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Positive, Appreciation

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.13, Harmony

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• The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Lying, Reality

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• Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.

  Lewis Baltz

  Meaningful, Photography, Art

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• I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eye

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• Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in My Books?" If he didn't, then you could just be making all of this up. Does anyone really think this guy sat down and stuck all kinds of hidden meanings into his story? It's just a story.... But I think you are making all of this symbolism stuff up. I don't believe any of it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Believe, Book, Mean

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• Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world- and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.

  Ken Ham

  Christian, Teaching, Evil

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• People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

  Mark Ryden

  Art, Real, Ideas

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• In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

  David Hewson

  Men, Vanity, Focus

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• But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry - until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Mother, Reading, Writing

  "Ella Enchanted". Book by Gail Carson Levine, 1997.

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• I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Destiny, Clay

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• When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

  Don McLean

  Funny, Music, Song

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• Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.

  Guido von List

  Life, Religious, Nature

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• Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Justice, Sound

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• The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

  Paul Tillich

  Vitality, Destruction, Abyss

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.183, University of Chicago Press

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• The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has its own meaning. The karateka must consider their meaning, how and why they are effective, and practise accordingly

  Shigeru Egami

  Art, Exercise, Fighting

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• Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to decipher them and guess what they mean.... When you see them, you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later, too late, that you understand.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Stars, Animal, Men

  "Zorba the Greek".

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• Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.43, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

  Frederic Chopin

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• The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Style, Half

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The greeting of peace (as-salamu 'alaykum) has many meanings. One of these meanings is that the person you are greeting will be safe from you (from your tongue, your heart, and your hand) and that you will not transgress against that person with your words or your deeds. This greeting is also a prayer for peace, safety, mercy, and blessings. We should take these noble meanings, which we so often say with our tongues, and make them our way of life in our dealings with other people.

  Salman al-Ouda

  Prayer, Heart, Blessing

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• I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Symbolism, Deals, Verses

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• Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking about what it means. So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Once it's in the viewer's eyes my job will be judged on whether or not it is engaging and pulls you in to a kind of intelligence or poetic something going on there that makes it sustainable to look at.

  Caio Fonseca

  Wall, Mean, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you look at the piece of paper, and there's just words on there, you interpret it as the actor to whatever you think is right. There may not be the hidden meaning behind the dialogue, because you don't really get to see what's going on.

  James Hong

  Thinking, Looks, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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