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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 Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
by Evan Sayet (Comedian , American) keywords: academic, academics, act, done, get, important, meaningless, now, say, something , work So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
by Morrie Schwartz (Educator, American , born in 1916) keywords: around, because, busy, chasing, doing, even, important, life, many, meaningless, seem, things, think, walk , wrong The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
by John Sladek (Author, American , born in 1937) keywords: able, alive, any, being, century, except, illiterate, language, list, makes, meaningless, privilege, problem , read I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.
by Kate Smith (Musician, American , born in 1907) keywords: everything, family, give, go, matter, meaningless, must, needed, show, them, up, vowed, whenever , would 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 Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.
by William Thomas (Athlete, American , born in 1968) keywords: anyone, deal, fact, her, his, important, insignificance, just, meaningless, moron, own, pathetic, pompous, thinks , usually The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
by Bernard De Voto (Writer, American , born in 1897) keywords: act, becomes, exact, meaningless, point, reason, refuses, trouble , where No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
by Denis Waitley (Writer , American) keywords: achieve, exist, feel, greater, island, just, life, man, meaningless, most, purpose, related, satisfaction, some, something, than, woman , yourself Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
by Marianne Williamson (Author, American , born in 1952) keywords: easy, feel, fill, heart, meaningless, mind, peace, preoccupied, stimuli, things, will, world , your The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
by Robert Anton Wilson (Writer, American , born in 1932) keywords: am, art, beautiful, dance, finished, goal, life, meaningless, moving, now, perfectly, process, right, sitting, web, where , work 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