"Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself,……" — Elizabeth Bowen

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• ... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable… — Philip Zimbardo
• Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which… — Andre Gide
• Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is… — Susan Sontag
• Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is… — Lewis Thomas
• Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
• Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple… — Perry Anderson
• Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar
• When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but… — Umberto Eco
• Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. — Eugene Ionesco
• Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less… — 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… — Clifford Geertz

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