Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".” — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy.… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Intimacy is about acceptance - without acceptance intimacy becomes either an illusion or an exercise in futility and frustration. — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“A Chinese proverb: Outside of sky there is sky, outside of people there are people. It is the idea of infinity and… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
“To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waited to be forgotten, had never… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
“I knew well the painful futility of reaching for more than you were ever likely to get, how much easier it was… — Amy Engel Copy Share Image
“A man votes for one party and remains miserable; he concludes that it was the other party that would bring the millennium.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
