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...

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.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

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...

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...

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let’s keep it in perspective.