Banalities Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity,… — Perry Anderson
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of… — Robert C. Solomon
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves… — Clifford Geertz
That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls. — Mark Ruffalo
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my… — Andre Gide
Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. — Michael McKean
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the… — Hunter S. Thompson
There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't… — Vincent Van Gogh
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those… — Paul Cezanne
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. — Boris Pasternak
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The banalities of a great man pass for wit. — Alexander Chase

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