#commonplace

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Vanilla has become too genericized. It’s become standard, which is good. Vanilla is a household name. But the same standardization that’s made it so popular has taken the novelty out of it. Being the vanguard of ice cream has vanquished its radical sensation. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#commonplace #funny #ice-cream #vanilla #funny

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. ↗

— Charles Scribner, Jr.

#commonplace #cultivated #essential #everyday #everyday life

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#anything #assert #be different #commonplace #creatures

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#extraordinary #great #great minds #interested #little

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#enthusiastic #intended #league #most #nations

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#men #more #occasions #seldom #supreme

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#corner #existence #first #first time #had

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#acting #commonplace #crowd #each #far

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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