Banalities Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.
— Mark Ruffalo
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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
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Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
— Michael McKean
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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
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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
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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
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
— Boris Pasternak
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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
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The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
— Alexander Chase
Who Wrote These Banalities Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Banalities Quotes as follows: