An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEANINGS
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.
Doug Horton
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are constructed.
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799, German physicist, satirist)
For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word "meaning" it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951, Austrian philosopher)
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