Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.

Art is a casual pursuit of significance.

Let's keep it in perspective.

Vera Nazarian

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...

Alexander Pope

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He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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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 the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.

Alain de Botton

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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 we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

John Cleese

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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. Dallocchio

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

Henry David Thoreau

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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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