#meaningless

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

— Bernard De Voto

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A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

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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

#eyes #great #knows #lord #material

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

— David Hilbert

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

— David Antin

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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

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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

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To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

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

— Aristotle Onassis

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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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