#useless

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#abyss #cross #disastrous #discovery #gain

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. ↗

— Democritus

#blindness #excepting #folly #gifts #give

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#dumb #i #information #just #thoroughly

All art is quite useless. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#quite #useless

A useless life is an early death. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#early #life #useless

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#advocated #both #complete #destructiveness #disputes

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#any #intention #purpose #senseless #useless

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. ↗

— Albert Camus

#desire #dictate #his #hope #live

Ability without honor is useless. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#honor #useless #without

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. ↗