#meaningless

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#attached #meaningless #name #who #without

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#experience #game #indeed #making #marks

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#few #food #justice #live #man

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

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

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#death #gives #importance #lives #meaning

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#failure #meaningless #possibility #then #victory