Meaningless Quotes - Page 10

• I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

  Miyavi

  Artist, Done, Singers

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• Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless. It demonstrates the endless multiplicity of aspects; it takes away our certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning and its name. It shows us the thing in all the manifold significance and infinite variety that preclude the emergence of any single meaning and view.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Views, Names

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• Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it is our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Expression, Support

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1955.

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• I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Running, Believe, Destiny

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

  Henry Hyde

  Hate, Liberty, Speech

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• On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism and say 'mathematics is just a combination of meaningless symbols,'... Finally we are left in peace to go back to our mathematics and do it as we have always done, with the feeling each mathematician has that he is working with something real. The sensation is probably an illusion, but it is very convenient.

  Jean Dieudonne

  Real, Believe, Feelings

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• Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but it will eventually go out of print, and eventually the last person ever to read it will die, and then the characters will no longer live in any consciousness.Also, that is okay. That is good, actually. That is how it should be. One of the things the characters in this novel have to grapple with is the reality of temporaryness. What Gus in particular must reconcile himself to is that being temporary does not mean being unimportant or meaningless.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Character

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• 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

  Art, Practice, Silence

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• Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

  Man Ray

  Laughter, Criticism, Limits

  Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Fall

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.2, Psychology Press

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• Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.

  Vince Lombardi

  Believe, Winning, Should Have

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Book, Library, May

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

  Khalil Gibran

  Habit

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• Only in sport? The qualification would seem meaningless to many Australians. What also is there that matters as much as sport? It is only in sport that many Australians express those approaches to life that are un-Australian if expressed in any other connection.

  Donald Horne

  Sports, Connections, Matter

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• Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Answers, Half

  Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.

  Stefan Zweig

  Believe, Animal, Hands

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• It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Followers

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• The sea cries with its meaningless voice,
  Treating alike its dead and its living

  Ted Hughes

  Sea, Voice, Cry

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• From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation, democracy will be a meaningless term. Without political leaders articulating this idea and acting upon it, public life and citizenship will continue to stagnate.

  Kevin Mattson

  Ideas, Creating, Leader

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• Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Opportunity, Economics, Advantage

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• To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

  Carl L. Becker

  Philosophy, Rights, Independence

  Carl L. Becker (2013). “Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas”, p.188, Vintage

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• The struggle for world domination is between me and the Jews. All else is meaningless. The Jews have inflicted two wounds on the world: Circumcision for the body and conscience for the soul. I come to free mankind from their shackles.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Two, Soul

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• It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.

  M. Ward

  Song, Writing, Magic Moments

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• Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.

  Ron Paul

  Reality, People, Perception

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• Football is the love of my life. I would never say I don't want to play. Somebody could say that this game is meaningless. Who is it meaningless to? I guess people who are watching the game? Or the people who are playing it? It's definitely not meaningless to us.

  Shawne Merriman

  Football, Games, Play

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