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• Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.

  Jean Piaget

  Science, Intelligent, Discovery

  Jean Piaget (2013). “Origin of Intelligence in the Child: Selected Works”, p.303, Routledge

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• She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and novas of colour both gorgeous and frightening. If I stayed she would wake up and describe them to me. All the mad plot twists and surrealist imagery, so vivid to her while so meaningless to me. There was a time when I treasured listening to her, when I found the commotion in her soul bitter-sweet and lovely, but I can no longer bear it.

  Isaac Marion

  Love, Dream, Sweet

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

  Poul Anderson

  Destiny, Two, Bravery

  Poul Anderson (2015). “The Stars Are Also Fire”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

  Hugh Laurie

  Love Is, Feelings, Arbitrary

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• I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Stupid, Way, Nonsensical

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.234, Random House

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• Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it's about nothing—just a jumble.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Something New”, p.181, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection to the mortal world completely. He'd never be able to rise again. I finally understood why he'd been so anxious to burn Setne's scrolls, and he was afraid of this spell. (Carter Kane)

  Rick Riordan

  Cutting, Shadow, Connections

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• What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

  Iain Banks

  Zoos, Rome, Violence

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• Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

  Dan Morgenstern

  Hope, Suffering, Despair

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• Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fake People, Names, Fans

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• The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Heart, Knowing, Secret

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.234, Penguin

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• Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")

  Marianne Williamson

  Lying, Mean, Addiction

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

  Gerald Early

  Taken, Winning, Style

  Gerald Lyn Early (1994). “The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture”

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• A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Matter, Emptiness, Empty

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• When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.

  Erlend Loe

  Hands, Imagination, Trying

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.49, Canongate Books

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• Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

  Henry Jenkins

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  "If You Saw My Talk at South By Southwest..." by Henry Jenkins, henryjenkins.org. March 10, 2008.

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• All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Truth, Real, Ideas

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• The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Giving, Mind, Religion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

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• I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Believe, Long, Matter

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• Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Education, Teaching, Imagination

  W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Mathematician's Delight”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Would Be, Arrogant, Things To Do

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Bernard DeVoto

  Trouble, Reason, Refuse

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• Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

  Bergen Evans

  Wisdom, Given, Selection

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• You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Pain, Loss

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• To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

  Alan Watts

  Ego, Life Is, Inches

  "Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety".

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