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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.
In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.
As often as not our whole self ... engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.
Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.
Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.
The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle of identity of indiscernibles and one the problems to which least attention has been paid of.
The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental.
What we deem insignificant may bear light to the whole world.
Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth
Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
The importance of unimportant things cannot be overstated.
Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.
Nothing is very important, and few things are important at all.
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.
The facts of life are simple and trivial. Only our imagination gives life to them. It makes the laundry pole of facts a flagstaff of dreams.
Simplicity is complexity resolved
Nothing by chance, nothing is random, nothing is in vain, nothing is trivial
Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!
There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood
Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.
Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
You seem to be displaying signs of triviality.
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
all things are simple when once you know them.
Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words.
There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
How difficult it is to be simple.
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
Simplicity is complex.
Very little matters very much and almost nothing matters greatly.
Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
An epic simplicity
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler
It is in the petty details, not in the great results, that the interest of existence lies.
The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.
In the end, everything is simple.
Little things that run the world
In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.
Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial
Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.
Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!
Like and dislike, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disgrace: these are the eight mundane concerns which condition our existence.
What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.
There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.
In a major matter no details are small.
Sounds simple, doesn't it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it's not as simple as it seems.
Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.
A mere nothing suffices - and the lightning strikes.
What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and without and stretch of thought or judgment, is but little regarded.
Nothing important is completely explicable.
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Everything that we do is insignificant ... and ... it is very important that we do it!
You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.
Nothing Is Important, Yet Everything Is Important
The really terrible thing about being young is the triviality
Nothing simple is worth doing easily.
There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
The blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.
Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.
Simplicity is not a simple thing.
In simplicity there is truth.
as the most stupendous objects in nature are but vast collections of minute particles, so the slightest and least considered trifles make up the sum of human happiness or misery.
The important things are always simple.
The world will be solved by millions of small things.
Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view.
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
Simplicity is a delicate imposition.
Nothing Worthwhile Is Easy
Nothing is small if God accepts it.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.
The little things. Perhaps it is these trivialities I have been writing down in my book, these small hooks on which my whole life is hung.
What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made and say the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
The simplest action is worth more than the profoundest thought.
The 'simple', in philosophy, means that which is without any cause outside of itself.
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.
The simplest things in life are what makes us happy eventually. A warm and comfy home, being loved, and knowing that somebody can't live without you
Simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.
Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.
The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.