Children he tempteth to excess of playfulness, lying, disobedience, unwillingness to learn the things that belong to their salvation, and a senselessness of the great concernment of their souls.
That he came not with senselessness of the majesty of God when he came to pray, as the Pharisee did, and as sinners commonly do.
But Christ cannot say thus when he pleadeth for us at God's bar; nor is our present senselessness and unconcernedness about his pleading but an aggravation to our sin.
Slothfulness is usually accompanied with carelessness, and carelessness is for the most part begotten by senselessness; and senselessness doth again put fresh strength into slothfulness, and by this means the soul is left remediless.
This argueth great senselessnessof God, and a heart greatly out of frame.
There was the same conception of the senselessness of everything to come in life, the same consciousness of humiliation.
This man, so subtle and astute in official life, did not realize all the senselessness of such an attitude to his wife.
You dread death not as a short terrible pain, and for you it will not be so, not as a short sleep, but as eternal senselessness and nothingness.
Simply because the shame and senselessness of it reached the pitch of genius!
Indeed, it could not be so, neither the former nor the latter could fail to see the irrationality of their conduct, if the complexity of government organization did not obscure the unnatural senselessness of their actions.
Of senselessness and shame-- What is immortal there?
As the senselessness of suffering was felt to be a curse, the ascetic ideal gave it a meaning; a meaning which brought a new flood of suffering with it, but which was better than none.
No doctrine revolts Zarathustra more than that of the vanity and senselessness of life.
The frightful senselessness of it was apparent when the enemies of two nations fighting to the death stood in the grey mist together and liked each other.
It's the sense of wanton destruction that makes one loathe it, the utter senselessness of it all, the waste of such good stuff.
It's the frightful senselessness of all this waste of life which makes one sick with horror.
Slowly, but irresistible as a swelling tide, emerges an evil thought: the idea of the senselessness of life, the thought of death.
With unprecedented logic Verhaeren, despairing of an interpretation of life, has exalted senselessness as the sense of the universe.
It strongly resembles Rembrandt as Educator, but is far beyond that book in the utter senselessness of its concatenations of words.
Every proof of the senselessness of his ideas rebounds from the deliriously insane or half-crazy person.
I have devoted very much more space to the demonstration of the senselessness of Nietzsche’s so-called philosophical system than the man and his system deserve.
To say nothing of the inhumanity, the senselessness of duelling revolts me.
Women were privileged to oppose their senselessness to the divine fire: men could not retreat behind such defences; they must meet him on the common ground of men, where this constant battler had never yet encountered a reverse.
