Best Futile Efforts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.”

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“The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.”

People Feels Persons Stills Effort Ought Ego Unselfish Moralist Futile Efforts

Author:Alan Watts

“Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.”

Men Mind Heart Has Beens Made Space Effort Conquer Remarkable Heart And Mind Stride Outer Space Futile Efforts

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.”

Thinking Believe Soul Lost Felt Understanding Effort Greater Luminous Futile Efforts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

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“I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.”

Needs Memories Effort Drink Wipe Debacles Futile Efforts