8 Quotes Tagged: uselessness

Nature is interested in only two things — to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man. So we have varieties of religious experience. You are not satisfied with your own religious teachings or games; so you bring in others from India, Asia or China. They become interesting because they are something new. You pick up a new language and try to speak it and use it to feel more important. But basically, it is the same thing.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all aims, objectives and intentions.

I believe you keep a lawyer. I have always kept a lawyer, too, though I have never made anything out of him.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.