pettiness [Theme]

Pettiness of mind breeds stubbornness.

- But this is shopkeeping, isn’t it? - he shouted. - Start a one and a half hundred thousand dollar business and quarrel over eight rubles! Learn to live generously!

Pettiness makes any business small.

Two principles constantly struggle in a person, of which one attracts him to the active activity of the spirit, to spiritual work in the name of the ideal, and the other seeks to paralyze this activity, to drown out the higher needs of the spirit, to make existence carnal, meager and vile. This second beginning is true philistinism; the tradesman sits in every person, always ready to lay his deadening hand on him as soon as his spiritual energy weakens. It is in the struggle with oneself, which includes the struggle with the outside world, that moral life consists, which therefore has as its condition this fundamental dualism of our existence, the struggle of two souls that live in one body not only in Faust, but also in every person.

Only empty and small people can remain useless, and great mental powers are certainly useful, even by their mistakes.

I always have one goal in front of me - the good of the Motherland: before this, the petty feelings of individuals fade in my eyes.

Human pettiness knows no bounds.

Even a person who never fought, never killed on the orders of, feel what I'm saying. Remember small meanness, cowardice, falsity, pettiness anyway there is something to lament. No wonder people invented work, alcohol, empty chatter. It is not surprising that television is a success.

My biggest concern is not the enormity of our problems and pettiness of our politics.

Forgive me for what I was stupid
And traded love for pettiness discoveries.
For that tenderness of crimson, slightly moist lips
Took with him beyond the event horizon.

Babi and fables, and pranay godliness.

You can be inattentive
and while petty,
and you can be careful
and is not petty.

The fool is synonymous with pettiness.

Envy makes a person too petty, after all, the wise will be silent, where petty favors.