Meaningless Quotes - Page 30

• We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

  Lewis Mumford

  Order, Issues, Finals

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter: "The Fulfillment of Man", 1951.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.

  Euvin Naidoo

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

  5 Copy quote

• Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Christian, Challenges, Way

  4 Copy quote

• Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Singapore, Always Believe, Ifs

  "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 1998.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Michael Josephson

  Important Values, Relics, Ifs

  4 Copy quote

• I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

  Henry Petroski

  Engineering, Numbers, Criteria

  "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". ASK OCE Interview, appel.nasa.gov. February 26, 2010.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Power is the engine of the world, and sex and money its oil and lubricants. God is at best the invocation before you start the engine-meaningless if you have no engine to start! God is a goli, a multi-flavoured pill, invented by those who have power, money and sex, to give to those who have none! Love is another great goli. Some days we too swallow these golis. They feel good, like a joint, a temporary high! But they are not the reality. The reality is power, money, sex! And yes, there's another goli-morality!

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Sex, Reality, Love Is

  "The Story of My Assassins: A Novel".

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Being Me, Life Is

  4 Copy quote

• Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.

  Michael Catt

  Christianity, Crosses, Powerless

  7 Copy quote

• The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

  Matt de la Pena

  Self, Feelings, Excitement

  7 Copy quote

• We who are born from above testify to the change that God has wrought in our hearts. Perhaps the best time for you to tell someone what has taken place in your life is when that person comes to you and says, 'What has happened to you? I have known you before and after. You are different, Tell me about it.' This is the best opportunity to tell someone about Christ. If they don't see a difference, all the talking in the world is meaningless.

  Paris Reidhead

  Taken, Heart, Opportunity

  25 Copy quote

• Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Mean, Artist, Giving

  32 Copy quote

• Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Violence, Existential, Behavior

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.9, SUNY Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

  Moses Finley

  Understanding, Sake, Waste

  7 Copy quote

• Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed.

  Laozi

  Pride, Blessing, Helping Others

  31 Copy quote

• In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Morning, Light, Darkness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless.

  Marshall Sylver

  Agreement, Firsts, Break

  4 Copy quote

• Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Change, Thinking, One Day

  4 Copy quote

• A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

  Dave Grohl

  Wall, Responsibility, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

  Steven Pinker

  Goal, Concepts

  26 Copy quote

• You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Emotion, Language, Show Me

  Source: www.believermag.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, 'We can't drill our way out of this crisis.' What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, 'You can't eat your way out of being hungry!' 'You can't water your way out of drought!' 'You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!' 'You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!' Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil? It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race.

  Ann Coulter

  Twilight, Mean, Sleep

  6 Copy quote

• We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

  Susan Moody

  Giving, Goes On, Ends

  Susan Moody (1998). “Return to the Secret Garden”, G K Hall & Company

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.

  Ann Leckie

  Mean, Choices, Wish

  4 Copy quote

• All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

  Havelock Ellis

  Spiritual, Lying, Winning

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source