Meaningless Quotes - Page 31

• God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.

  T. B. Joshua

  Activity

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• 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”

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• Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Breakfast, May, Meaningless Life

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• 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

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

  Moses Finley

  Understanding, Sake, Waste

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• I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

  Neil Diamond

  Meaningful, Song, Writing

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• It is not my behavior to either wear minimum clothes, to band or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do fine work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept. The exposure has to be significant to the film and its characters and not forced for the sake of titillation. On the contrary, some of the greatest Indian films have been devoid of all these sexual trappings. I know my comfort zone in today's Indian culture and society.

  Katrina Kaif

  Sex, Character, Clothes

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• Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Cutting, Reality, Ideas

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• The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

  Alan Turing

  Believe, Thinking, Machines

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• The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Ghana, Independence, Liberation

  Kwame Nkrumah (1968). “Dark days in Ghana”, Lawrence & Wishart

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• It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.

  Kurt Koffka

  Meaningful, Said, Procedures

  Kurt Koffka (1999). “Principles of Gestalt Psychology”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• 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

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• Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

  Steven Pinker

  Goal, Concepts

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• 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

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• Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

  Paul Hindemith

  Mind, Receiving, Noise

  Paul Hindemith (1969). “A composer's world, horizons and limitations”

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• It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Meaningless Things, Doing Me, Want

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• And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Dark, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

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• Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

  Haruki Murakami

  Exertion, Persons

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• Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Dissociation, Meaningless Life

  "Face to Face", TV Series (1959– ). "Professor Jung", www.imdb.com. 1959.

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