#trivial

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#comes #darfur #matters #might #more

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. ↗

— Larry Wall

#bad idea #given #i #i think #idea

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. ↗

— Max Weber

#computations #even #good #head #himself

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies. ↗

— John Piper

#trivial #life

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#actually #before #getting #getting old #haven

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. ↗

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#helps #immediacy #less #life #live

To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in random trivial details or the luxury of time-consuming over-analysis. This place forced you to live because at any moment, life could be lost. Ramadi forced me to die unto myself. ↗

— M.B. Wilmot

#iraq #iraq-war #overanalysis #ramadi #triviality

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

#inertia #morality #triviality #metaphysics

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#disaster #disasters #formula #never #relationship

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#commit #etiquette #go #inclines #into