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No one has equally raised the human mind above the trivialities of the common logic and the unmeaningness of 'mere' abstractions, and above imaginary possibilities, which, as he truly says, have no place in philosophy.

From Sophist by Plato

Its unmeaningness was ghastly, and the ghastlier for the greatness of its bald and lifeless stare.

From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)

It is edged with lace, and ornamented with jewelry, and has altogether a look of utter unmeaningness and confusion of form.

From Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress by Merrifield, Mary Philadelphia

But it is not so much on account of its consequences as on account of its essential unmeaningness and intellectual unintelligibility that I would invite you to reject this formula 'God is all.'

From Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Rashdall, Hastings

Can we imagine that being is devoid of life and mind, and exists in awful unmeaningness an everlasting fixture?

From Sophist by Plato