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• The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.

  Harold Monro

  Art, Expression, Appreciate

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• Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Pensamiento, Gente, Prejuicios

  Programa de radio "This I Believe", thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

  Mason Cooley

  Way, Slides, Aphorism

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• As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ideas, Healthy, Literature

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). "H.L. Mencken: Prejuicios: Primera, segunda y tercera series", Hubsta Ltd

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• Los escritos alemanes alcanzan la popularidad a través de un gran nombre, o a través de personalidades, o a través de buenas conexiones, o a través del esfuerzo, o a través de la inmoralidad moderada, o a través de la incomprensibilidad consumada, o a través de la perogrullada armoniosa, o a través del aburrimiento versátil, o a través de la lucha constante por el absoluto.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Escritura, nombres, aburrimiento

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• We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Religious, Party, Scary

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• La vida de Dios -la vida que la mente aprehende y disfruta a medida que se eleva hacia la unidad absoluta de todas las cosas- puede describirse como un juego de amor consigo misma; pero esta idea se hunde en una perogrullada edificante, o incluso en una perogrullada, cuando no abarca en ella la seriedad, el dolor, la paciencia y el trabajo, implicados en el aspecto negativo de las cosas.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Dios, Dolor, Juego

  "La Fenomenología del Espíritu". Libro de Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1807.

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• Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Truth, People, Despise

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Doctors, Catholic

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.403, Cambridge University Press

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• ¿Por qué es tan justa la sabiduría? ¿Por qué la belleza es tan sabia? Porque todo lo demás es temporal, mientras que la belleza y la sabiduría son los únicos aspectos reales y constantes de la verdad que pueden percibirse por medios humanos. Y no me refiero al tipo de belleza superficial que se desvanece con la edad, ni al tipo de sabiduría superficial que se pierde en tópicos. La verdadera belleza te agarra las entrañas y te aprieta los pulmones, y te hace ver con la máxima claridad exactamente lo que tienes ante ti. La verdadera sabiduría interviene entonces para interpretar, iluminar y dar forma a una visión que cambia la vida.

  Vera Nazarian

  Sabio, Real, Malo

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• Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

  Edward Abbey

  Deny, Implications, Statements

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sound, Adults, May

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. 19 de septiembre de 2008.

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• Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.

  Mark Doty

  Inspirational, Pain, Passion

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• There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

  Winston Churchill

  Mistake, Safety, Path

  "Churchill solo".

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• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

  Edward Gibbon

  Education, Clever, Ideas

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• Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Self, Risk, Discourse

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• Mientras pagaba el coche y seguía la larga cola de su esposa hasta la casa, se refugió en el reconfortante tópico de que los seis primeros meses son siempre los más difíciles en el matrimonio. Después de eso supongo que casi habremos terminado de restregarnos los ángulos el uno al otro", reflexionó; pero lo peor de todo era que la presión de May ya estaba incidiendo en los mismos ángulos cuya nitidez él más deseaba mantener...

  Edith Wharton

  Esposa, Largo, Casa

  Edith Wharton (2006). "The Age of Innocence" (La edad de la inocencia), p.148, OUP Oxford

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• Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Pain, Thinking, Suffering

  "True Myth: Una conversación con Sufjan Stevens". Entrevista con Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. 16 de febrero de 2015.

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• Lo que necesitamos es un renacimiento de la sátira, de la disidencia, de la irreverencia, de una insistencia inflexible en que la falsedad es falsa y los tópicos son tópicos.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Deception, Needs, Irreverence

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• applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Echoes, Applause, Audience

  'The Cynic's Word Book' (1906) p. 19

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• When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

  C. S. Lewis

  Decay, Holy Places, Amulets

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.403, Cambridge University Press

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• Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.

  Edward Bernays

  Writing, Data, Mind

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• Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.

  Peter Kreeft

  Christian, Buddhism, Miracle

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• Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Departed, Mortals

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.183, University of Georgia Press

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• I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Wind

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.2, 谷月社

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