Futility Quote by Zhuangzi Download Open image “All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.” — Zhuangzi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Futility Knows Men Useful things Utility
What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.” — Yeo-tze Copy Share Image
“Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of checkers call… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred,… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Uite, daca-mi strang sufletul, nu se prinde nimic in el. Oricum, am ajuns departe, foarte departe. O mai fi ceva? Arborii cresc, le dau… — Marin Sorescu Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“ In a thousand years or ten thousand, no one would remember my nation. It, too, would share in oblivion and prove to not matter,… — Miller Rory Copy Share Image
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