Quotes having the keyword Meaningless
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
by Thomas Nagel (Philosopher, Yugoslavian , born in 1937) keywords: absurd, life, may, meaningless , only
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
by Aristotle Onassis (Businessman, Greek , born in 1906) keywords: after, ceases, certain, counts, game, goal, meaningless, money , point
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.
by Octavio Paz (Poet, Mexican , born in 1914) keywords: against, also, contrary, deprivation, expression, feeling, history, human, language, literature, makes, meaningless, missing, nature, noise, recourse, sense, silence, something, true , us
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
by John Polkinghorne (Physicist, British , born in 1930) keywords: chance, come, contingency, happens, historical, mean, meaningless, new, novelty, randomness, rather, than, things , way
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
by Robert H. Schuller (Clergyman, American , born in 1926) keywords: exists, failure, meaningless, possibility, then , victory
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
by Frederick Soddy (Scientist, English , born in 1877) keywords: actual, allegorical, apparently, been, expression, hold, ideas, jumble, may, meaningless, now, origin, perfect, present, really, slightly, today, very, views , whatever
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.
by Leslie Stephen (Author, English , born in 1832) keywords: atheism, collection, doubt, express, few, god, identified, meaningless, mind, pronounced, state, then, theology, think, unintelligible, unknowable, used, which , words
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
by Thomas Szasz (Psychologist, American , born in 1920) topics: Society keywords: among, because, collective, creates, democratic, distinctions, guilt, individual, meaningful, meaningless, men, mind, moral, now, odious, prefer, punishment, responsibility, unfashionable , which
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.
by Robert Anton Wilson (Writer, American , born in 1932) keywords: meaningless, phenomena, real, sense, some , unreal
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.
by John Wooden (Coach, American , born in 1910) keywords: because, eyes, great, knows, lord, material, matters, meaningless, possessions, really, reputations, scores , winning