Purposeless Quotes

36 quotes by 28 authors

Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more… — Rajneesh
Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. — Ambrose Bierce
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger… — Sigmund Freud
Ego brings unnatural desires in you; it drives you crazy. Life is simple, but to be simple one has to be purposeless. Any goal, and… — Rajneesh
A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it;… — Mark Twain
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Purposeless activity may be a phase of death. — Pearl S. Buck
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary — Maimonides
The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal,… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind — George Gaylord Simpson
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state… — George Gaylord Simpson
In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension . — Eugen Herrigel
The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless. — Andrew the Apostle
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune.… — Ambrose Bierce
Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a… — Freeman Dyson
For too long, weâ€™ve called unbelievers to â€œinvite Jesus into your life.â€ Jesus doesnâ€™t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck.… — Russell D. Moore
God has sent no one to this earth purposeless. — Karen Wheaton

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