Sentences with phrase «ultimate meaninglessness»
The lemon — once a symbol of both luxury and mortality, of artistic ability and earthly decay, of the sheer might of ever - expanding empires and the ultimate meaninglessness of possessions — it contained all the conflicting dynamics which gave still life paintings their appeal; acting as «vanitas», seducing the senses while reminding the viewer of the transient nature of life.
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We might also note that Nietzsche's higher or Dionysian vision of Eternal Recurrence — which he judged to be the ultimate expression of Yes - saying or total affirmation — can be reached only by passing through a full and total realization of the meaninglessness and chaos of the world or reality as such.
In some respects, then, death becomes the ultimate enemy, «the last enemy to be abolished», 14 in that it becomes for man the symbol of all which threatens his life with defeat and meaninglessness.
Pointing to the ultimate from the standpoint of the conditioned, these symbols give an answer of assurance to counteract the threat and peril of meaninglessness.