Robert Rowland Smith Quotes

#1. One of the many factors that separate children from adults is the apparent lack in children of teleological intent; that, beyond the immediate ambition of scoring a goal or finishing a drawing, they're not trying to get anywhere or achieve anything.

Robert Rowland Smith

#2. [Roland] Barthes turned the thable on the author, saying no only the a book needs a reader to wake it into life, but that in so doing the reader becomes nothing less that the author, who reveals in the book's hermeneutic possibilities, releases them and so becomes its own creator.

Robert Rowland Smith

#3. Credit' comes from the Latin 'credere', 'to believe', for credit is the belief that the money you're borrowing will someday be returned, a belief that needs the future to function in.

Robert Rowland Smith

#4. Given that Socrates was effectively assassinated by poison, you might think twice before accepting his invitation to breakfast.

Robert Rowland Smith

#5. Let's remember you can still go shopping without buying, because where buying is a matter of need, shopping is a question of want.

Robert Rowland Smith