#meaningless

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#biological #developed #fully #himself #human

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#hair #indie #meaningless #means #now

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#belly #essential #famous #fire #meaningless

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #art #books #cinema #come

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. ↗

— Bill Murray

#anyone #awards #campaigns #disdain #get

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. ↗

— Aristotle Onassis

#after #ceases #certain #certain point #counts

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#death #i #meaningless #mtv #stuff

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#artists #element #feel #i #i think