Arthur Schopenhauer
The conversation among ordinary people, when it does not relate to any special matter of fact, but takes a more general character, mostly consists in hackneyed commonplaces, which they alternately repeat to each oother with the utmost complacency.
Lewis Carrol
A loaf of bread," the Walrus said, "Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed- Now, if you're ready, Oysters dear, We can being to feed.
Cormac McCarthy
- Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.