Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have laboured to exorcise or to conceal from themselves and their clients. This ontological, which is to say both primordial and essential axiom (or platitude) of ineradicable undecidability needs, none the less, to be closely argued.
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
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