Both Uses of
platitude
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with the debris of thoughts grown stale and platitudes too often repeated.†
Part 1platitudes = things so commonly repeated that they are no longer interesting
- Among philosophers this is so widely believed it's almost a platitude, but for him it's a revelation.†
Part 2 *
Definition:
something so commonly repeated that it is no longer interesting