If the struggle for self-mastery and self-improvement that he urged on his readers was not to seem, and indeed to be a pointless exercise, then knowledge, as he expressed it in the Preface to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, had to be denied in order to make room for faith (B xxx).
It would be pointless to deny the knowledge of some biographical detail, here – the author herself had a brother, whose death she prefigured by hours in an article for the Guardian, writing: "My brother breaks my heart.
Developing a more street smart attitude may seem silly, or pointless, but the simple knowledge that you can protect yourself will increase your confidence.
UNTIL A FEW YEARS ago it would have been pointless to seek self-knowledge through numbers.
He is the bloke off the BBC teatime general-knowledge quiz show Pointless, co-presented by Alexander Armstrong; the one with all the answers.
Yet, most times they just bore me … all that often pointless talking… In EWAPS I have found a community to share knowledge and experience, while discuss and reflect on issues of shared interest".
At last, a use for the knowledge he'd imparted, but which I'd always thought was pointless.
After traveling the winding path of recovery, she won her happily ever after, and now uses the knowledge she gained to inspire people and deter others from the pointless path of skinny.
A fortiori, analyzing the direction of regulation (induction or repression) of each regulated molecule seems pointless in such large eukaryotic systems, and in the state of our current knowledge.
Pointless asks its players to come up with obscure answers to broad general-knowledge questions; those with the fewest points proceed to the next round.
