Meaningless Quotes
638 quotes by 497 authors
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A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
— Bergen Evans
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Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.
— Deepak Chopra
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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…
— Henry Jenkins
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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…
— G. Stanley Hall
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The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
— Bertrand Russell
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The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely…
— C.S. Lewis
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
— Gerhard Richter
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Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries…
— Marion Woodman
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I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.
— Henry Hyde
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On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism…
— Jean Dieudonne
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Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but…
— John Green
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Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving…
— Harold Rosenberg
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Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has…
— Man Ray
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Practice without improvement is meaningless.
— Chuck Knox
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Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless…
— Carl Jung
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Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten…
— Vince Lombardi
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