#meaningless

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#meaninglessness #nature-and-man #equality

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

— David Hilbert

#certain #game #marks #mathematics #meaningless

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#any #anymore #ask #being #could

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. ↗

— David Antin

#enough #hebrew #i #learned #meaningless

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#attached #meaningless #name #who #without

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#experience #game #indeed #making #marks

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#few #food #justice #live #man

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#atheism #collection #doubt #express #few

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#biological #developed #fully #himself #human

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#hair #indie #meaningless #means #now