5 Quotes Tagged: triviality

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.

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.

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.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.