32 Quotes About Trivial

The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago by the exact sciences, is now once more dug up by pseudo scientists from the lumber room of human fallacies, and like a trollop, newly attired in elegant dress and make-up, is smuggled into respectable company, to which she does not belong.

How often do we not scold or call ourselves to order? If our needs are utterly fulfilled, it may be that we still remain unsatisfied. By creating additional wants or artificial wishes, we generate a cascade of new desires that outshines our search for genuine needs. Through our loss of authenticity, we fade away in the vapor of pathetic shallowness or vanish into the flamboyance of trivial limelight. ("Consumers' Dream")

Be jovial, not trivial.

In a wordy battle with trivial dogmatic mentalities , I win by sandwiching my perspectives between my upper lip tubercle and lower lip tubercle.

God's and beasts, that is what our world is made of.

When the towers fell ...” They cast such a shadow, and it stretched out over our lives. We grew up in that shadow. “And it made everything seem so trivial.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?

Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together.