“Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.” IfsMeanCareValuesLiteratureLostLanguageVirtueProductsKeysMoralityCeaseChemicalsMeaninglessHistoricTransmit Author:Lewis Mumford
“I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.” KindValuesPrayerExistenceTreeSeaFlowerGood ThingsEdgesSmellRoutineMeaninglessLove Someone Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012 Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012
“"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.” ValuesCompanyConceptsEngagedMeaninglessManufacturingRetailInsurance CompaniesRetail Business Author:Peter Drucker
“The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.” MayMovingValuesWiseFailingThinkerMeaninglessMathematicianObscurePitsBeing Wise Book:The Principles of Success in Literature Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is - since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something.” IfsWorldGivingMeanSeemsValuesIndividualInterestIllusionBackgroundsSecurePreservesStreamsCosmosMeaninglessArtificialArbitraryEnglishmen Author:H. P. Lovecraft