Meaningless Quotes - Page 16

• Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Too Much, Ifs

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.12, Penguin

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• Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Light, Hot And Cold

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.35, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.

  Annie Dillard

  Wings, May, Bucks

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• Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

  Hu Shih

  Meaningful, Live Life, Men

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• The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Sky, Sound

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Thinking, Light, White

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• We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Tired, Simple

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• Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term "still" seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.

  Greil Marcus

  Real, Simple, Records

  "This is Greil Marcus’ Brain on 'Shuffle'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2010.

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• You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Excuse You, Environmental

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• When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the painting says, indeed what the artist is shrieking at the top of his voice, is that life has become empty of all rational content and coherence, and that, in times like these, is far from a meaningless statement.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Times Like These, Voice

  Lewis Mumford (2000). “Art and Technics”, p.21, Columbia University Press

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• Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Sex, Issues, Justice

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.375, Vintage

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• Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us. Are you pursuing a shadow career?

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Careers, Risk

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• Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Two, Combination, Acquire

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism - that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage.

  Peter Schwartz

  Ideas, Race, Diversity

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• When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Past, Compassion, Names

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan

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• There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Writing, Want

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• I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.

  Roger Ebert

  Prayer, Flower, Smell

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012”, p.713, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

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• The baseline is the same. Is Iran going to suspend enrichment activity? Is Iran going to return to the negotiations? Or is Iran going to continue, as we think they have, to stall and prevaricate and extend things in a meaningless way in order to avoid censure.

  Joseph Adam Ereli

  Thinking, Iran, Order

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• The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Independent, Feelings, Essentials

  'Artists on Art; from the 14th - 20th centuries', ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, pp. 451, 1927.

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• For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Mean, Expression, Ideas

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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.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Theory, Illogical

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• The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.

  Tad R. Callister

  Jesus, Discovery, Events

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• I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to that is, "Oh well, it's all hopeless. The natural world is getting wrecked, birds are disappearing, the planet is warming and so anything we might do on a smaller scale is meaningless."

  Jonathan Franzen

  Thinking, Bird, Looks

  "Exclusive: Jonathan Franzen sounds off on bird poaching, climate change and “performing love”". Interview with LIindsay Abrams, www.salon.com. April 27, 2015.

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• Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals and plans are meaningless if they cannot be executed successfully!

  Gary Ryan

  Jobs, Goal, Done

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