Quotes About Commonplaces

El tono es un golpe de silencio que enmudece, en cada voz, la voz de los Otros que habla en los lugares comunes; un intervalo entre los estereotipos que deja oír lo que queda del enmudecimiento de la voz propia, un resto del anonadamiento (necesario, constitutivo) de la voz personal en la in-diferencia de lo trivial.

De pronto vivir sea ser derrotado, más temprano que tarde, por los lugares comunes: el duelo y la redención, el amor y la muerte

But it is well known that the bourgeois pater-familias was specially devised by Heaven to utter commonplaces and trivialities.

When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left unmade.

Es que la gente parece que le tiene miedo a los estereotipos, a los lugares comunes...

You are to know that Miss Martineau's mesmeric experience is only peculiar as being Harriet Martineau's, otherwise it exhibits the mere commonplaces of the agency. You laugh, I see. I wish I could laugh too. I mean, I seriously wish that I could disbelieve in the reality of the power, which is in every way most repulsive to me....

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Paradox is not suited to burials, nor to weddings or births, in fact. Sinister — or grotesque — events require commonplaces; the terrible, like the painful, accommodates only the cliché.

It was over, the awkward moment, the dreaded moment, sliding past in a ripple of commonplaces, the easy mechanical politenesses that are so much more than empty convention; they are the greaves and cuirasses that arm the naked nerve.

Once for all, he accepts the stock of commonplaces, prejudices, fag-ends of ideas or simply empty words which chance has piled up within his mind, and with a boldness only explicable by his ingenuousness, is prepared to impose them everywhere

Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world, where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St. John and I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces. Comprehension does not mean denying the outrageous, deducing the unprecedented from precedents, or explaining phenomena by such analogies and generalities that the impact of reality and the shock of experience are no longer felt.

They had from an early hour made up their mind that society was, luckily, unintelligent, and the margin allowed them by this had fairly become one of their commonplaces.

Estas empanadas de lugares comunes con que tantas personas economizan su estudio, apenas sirven para asuntos comunes, y solo para mostrarnos, no para conducirnos: fruto ridículo de la ciencia, que Sócrates censura tan graciosamente en Eutidemo. Yo

extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements;

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Ser moderno é tratar de sabotar os lugares-comuns de seu tempo. Programa complexo: o nosso tende a não passar de uma proliferação de lugares comuns. O espírito de época, se pudermos chamar assim, é uma montagem sem pé nem cabeça de lugares-comuns.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

Perhaps the preacher is hoping to acquire from her reading what I call "middle wisdom." Let's say that middle wisdom consists of insights into life that are more profound than commonplaces, but less so than great proverbs.

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.