Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.