At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality? — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“The banality of evil. It wasn’t the frothing madman. It was the conscientious us.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
“Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives. - Clara Bayliss” — John Hennessy Copy Share Image
I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beyond the feeble capacity of words. Defying the banality of description.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“We are asked to orient our “strategies” and “tactics” around poverty and material immiseration at a time when revolutionary sentiment is being… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The truth was that I'd been spending years running away from myself. I hid myself in drama, silliness, stupidity, banality. So afraid… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“Let a man be either a hero or a saint. In between lies, not wisdom, but banality.” — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me, — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
“Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.” — Ervin Staub Copy Share Image
It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
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