Platitude: A Statement That Denies By Implication What It Explicitly Affirms. -- Edward Abbey

Platitude: A Statement That Denies By Implication What It Explicitly Affirms. -- Edward Abbey

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Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.
-- Edward Abbey

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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality. -- Edward Abbey
Life is cruel? Compared to what? -- Edward Abbey
If the end does not justify the means - what can? -- Edward Abbey
Might does not make right but it sure makes what is. -- Edward Abbey
What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. -- Edward Abbey
What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love. -- Edward Abbey
POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent.
Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer....
Perfection is a minor virtue. -- Edward Abbey
Simplicity is always a virtue. -- Edward Abbey