Meaning vs. Truth

One thing I found puzzling in the introduction is Arendt's statement that "The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same" (Arendt 15). To me, it seems nigh impossible to extricate one from the other. The meaning of anything for anyone becomes truth to that person so how can they not be synonymous? The meaning of something, to me, seems to be made true by virtue of the fact that it has been "discovered" at all. If to be true means to to exist in reality, and any meaning is real to certain people, then they must be the same.