Triviality Quotes

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Theodor W. Adorno

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

Henry David Thoreau

When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. (Cape of good hope)

Erik Pevernagie

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.

Alain de Botton

The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.

If you're tired of triviality, maybe it's time you changed your life.

Anthony T.Hincks

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective.

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective.

You trivialize time when you don’t know what to do with it.

In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.

My charge to you and to anyone else who desire greatness is that you should not trivialize time.

Don’t trivialize the fact that your life is diminishing.

I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.

Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly.