Uselessness

I have just return'd from the Astral Plane, and you should know that the greatest ghostly Complaint was the Uselessness of their present Conditions.

What is the sound of one hand on a children's TV show host? Ann Althouse 2009

· Wonderful lectures and conversations on topics like 'The Value of Uselessness ", and' The Balance of Responsibility and Dreaming "

PHD Perspectives: From Ad:Tech to the Ashram, A 7-Day Journey of Digital Extremes - Lance Neuhauser - MediaBizBloggers 2009

Email a copy of 'The Uselessness of Economists on Immigration:' to a friend

E-Mail 'The Uselessness of Economists on Immigration:' To A Friend 2006

And so shall you stay with me in your hearts, and take to yourselves something of the new Gladness that held all my being; for it did seem truly that my bitter task and adventuring should not in the end be offered to Uselessness; and that I did truly draw unto that far place in the Everlasting Night, where mine own Maid did cry for me, that I should succour her.

The Night Land 2007

While we are on the subject of words, Lake Superior State University has issued its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use, and General Uselessness.

January 2005 2005

Asymptotically Approaching Uselessness | jlake.com

Asymptotically Approaching Uselessness | jlake.com 2004

Uselessness and scandal in professors are branches growing constantly on this root of unacquaintedness with their own frame and temper; and how few are there who will either study them themselves or bear with those who would acquaint them with them!

Of Temptation 1616-1683 1967

And so shall you stay with me in your hearts, and take to yourselves something of the new Gladness that held all my being; for it did seem truly that my bitter task and adventuring should not in the end be offered to Uselessness; and that I did truly draw unto that far place in the Everlasting Night, where mine own Maid did cry for me, that I should succour her.

The Night Land: Chapter 7 1912

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907

What is the matter with the poor is Poverty: what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Maxims for Revolutionists 1903