Commonplace Quotes - Page 10

• I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

  Grant Bowler

  Thinking, Way, Fantasy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Men

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• I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

  Ben Silbermann

  Phones, Long, People

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• There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Years

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• In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.

  Del Howison

  Halloween, Topics, Gimmicks

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• Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Reading, Optimistic

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

  Jean-Francois Millet

  Art, True Power, Giving

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• Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

  William Bolitho

  Sorry, Poetry, Dull

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• L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Fire, Wind

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• The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Unity, Universal

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• What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mean, Law, Miracle

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Trying, Want, Talent

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.394, Xist Publishing

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• The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Differences, People

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• It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Moral, Incredibles, Should

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• It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

  Horace

  Matter, Way, Easy

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• With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Art, Grace

  1802 'To the Daisy', stanza 1 (published 1807).

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• [I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Civilization, Roots

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Would Be, Pieces

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XV: "We Arrive At The Real Question", 1929.

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• The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. ... An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Eye, Thinking, Everyday

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Effort, Intellectual, Path

  "What is Philosophy?". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 15, 1964.

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• No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

  George Bernard Shaw

  Confused, Hero, Age

  George Bernard Shaw (1968). “Four Plays by Bernard Shaw”, Pocket Books

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• No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

  William John Locke

  May, Matter, Fantastic

  William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

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• We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

  Tom Chatfield

  Miracle, Age, Texture

  Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .

  Albert Pike

  Lying, Littles, Majesty

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

  Doris Lessing

  Life, Phases, Terrible

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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