Meaninglessness

That’s a sense of meaninglessness, marked sense of disbelief, identity disruption, numbness, that sort of thing, and it has to be outside your cultural contingencies.

A sense of meaninglessness spread, and people started to lose faith in their governments, existing social structures and accepted moral values.

During his master-of-the-Senate phase in 1957 and 1960, he helped pass bills on the issue by largely allowing them to be watered down to near meaninglessness.

I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.

Strangely enough, we often find this meaninglessness enjoyable.

The loss of male identity—meaninglessness, becoming nothing—triggered cycles of chaos that made murder-suicide and family genocide seem more desirable than existing without a woman, children, or family relations.

Alienation, to Blauner, has four dimensions: powerlessness, meaninglessness, isolation, and self-estrangement.

A primary cause of confusion is that Friedrich Nietzsche is an important philosopher in both fields, but also the existentialist insistence on the inherent meaninglessness of the world.

Chapter 1: An Absurd Reasoning Camus undertakes the task of answering what he considers to be the only question of philosophy that matters: Does the realization of the meaninglessness and absurdity of life necessarily require suicide?

He articulates a story about the vastness, coldness, and insensitivity of the universe and the meaninglessness of man's place in the universe.

He has an outburst about his frustrations and the absurdity of the human condition, and his personal anguish without respite at the meaninglessness of his existence.

He writes that he was transported into a world of farcical meaninglessness and notes that the experience was interesting and funny, but not religious.

In this sense, in constructing a world where objective knowledge is possible, Christianity is an antidote against a primal form of nihilism, against the despair of meaninglessness.

In this sense, in constructing a world where objective knowledge is possible, Christianity is an antidote to a primal form of nihilism—the despair of meaninglessness.

This is mostly due to difficulties in human look-ahead peculiar to Othello: The interchangeability of the disks and therefore apparent strategic meaninglessness (as opposed to chess pieces for example) makes an evaluation of different moves much harder.

This meaninglessness also encompasses the amorality or "unfairness" of the world.

Yet (1), though nonsensical, is grammatical, while (2) is not grammatical. citation While the meaninglessness of the sentence is often considered fundamental to Chomsky's point, Chomsky was only relying on the sentences having never been spoken before.