Quotes About Commonness

Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values--inexperienceable--which we serve.

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

Svet je odvratan prosto zato što su ljudi u ogromnoj ve?ini najobi?niji glupaci. I sve su nesre?e odatle. Iz gluposti.

ZwykÅ'o?? zaÅ› równa siÄ™ nijako??, a nijako?? to tanio??.

Hope is synonymous with expectation. In the sense that, whatever you earnestly expect is what you will experience. So what has been your hope all these while? Whatever/however, you've got to hope for riches never poverty, hope for success never failure, hope for greatness never commonness, hope for salvation never damnation.

It is an aristocratic feeling that nourishes the tendency to seclusion and solitude. All rascals are sociable, pitifully so. But that a human being is of a nobler kind first shows itself in the fact that he does not delight in others, but more and more prefers solitude to their company and then gradually, over the course of the years, comes to understand that, apart from rare exceptions, there is only one choice in the world, that between solitude and commonness.

When the news came that his father had died—slipped away, a nurse told him, as if he had gone out for milk—Eddie felt the emptiest kind of anger, the kind that circles in its cage. Like most workingmen's sons, Eddie had envisioned for his father a heroic death to counter the commonness of his life.

Vulgarity is an old Narcissus who adores himself and applauds the common vulgarity.

To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

la realidad es mucho más vulgar, más mediocre, más chata.

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.

The question loomed: At what point does commonness cease to be an asset, as a viable form of populism, and become a liability for a political actor? And should anyone be shocked when voters are swept up in an "almost Elvis-sized following," as Cavett said Palin's supporters were? When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.