Quotes of Meaningless - somelinesforyou

“ Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. ”

- David Hilbert

“ No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ Practice without improvement is meaningless. ”

- Chuck Knox

“ The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. ”

- Bernard Devoto

“ When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

“ Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters. ”

- John Wooden

“ Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential. ”

- William Thomas

“ Our dreams, goals, and ideas come from our values…If what we are doing does not come from what we care about most in life, it is meaningless. ”

- G. Lynne Snead and Joyce Wycoff

“ The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Danger for danger's sake is senseless. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one. ”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

“ Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. ”

- Bergen Evans

“ Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ”

- Jules Feiffer

“ People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. ”

- Marianne Williamson

“ The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. ”

- W. S. Maugham

“ If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. ”

- Michael Josephson

“ The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. — My life? Well now, that's another story… ”

- Dr. Squid

“ The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless. ”

- Paul Johnson

“ Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. ”

- Aristotle Onassis

“ Always! That is the dreadful word… it is a meaningless word, too. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ At birth man is offered only one choice — the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless. ”

- Jean Pierre Melville

“ Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon. ”

- William Zinsser

“ I'd rather attempt to do great things and blow it, than succeed at meaningless things and just get by. ”

- Unknown

“ If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. ”

- Robert Schuller

“ One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become "Golems," they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned… ”

- Lewis Mumford
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