Useless Things quotes
27 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing."
"Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."
"The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
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"Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve."
"I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless."
"We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend."
"There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things."
