“To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in random trivial details… — M.B. Wilmot Copy Share Image
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The perplexity of life arises from their being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.'… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
“Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality ... by the fact… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
