The Standard of Usefulness

"One need not worry about the useless. By virtue of its uselessness the inviolable and everlasting suit it. Thus, it is wrong to apply the standard of usefulness to the useless. The useless has its own greatness and determining power since it does not let anything be made out of it. In this manner, useless is the sense of things" (Martin Heidegger, "Traditional and Technological Language" p.131)