Kolakowski Quotes

#1. A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

Leszek Kolakowski

#2. Truly give your all to passionately walking the path of life your soul and conscience have chosen, and boldly embrace all worries coming to you on that path.

Ilchi Lee

#3. No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

Leszek Kolakowski

#4. I am not a Kant expert and no Kantian but, I should say, a Kant sympathizer - especially where conflicts between Kantian and so-called historicist thinking are concerned, both in epistemology and in ethics.

Leszek Kolakowski

#5. But a child's belief in its own shortcomings is not much influenced by facts.

George Orwell

#6. In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#7. Extremely unlikely events occur every moment and it is not a priori unthinkable that the evolution of life should be due to mere chance than that a particular order in a pack of cards should result from mechanical shuffling.

Leszek Kolakowski

#8. And then when she takes him through the whole wine tasting process, finishing with a long, languid taste that she really enjoyed "she opened her eyes and saw Nick staring at her.
"I feel like I need a cigarette and a shower after watching that.

Julie James

#9. The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.

Chevy Chase

#10. My town has an "Adult" store that's been there for a while, despite the fact that a lot of people protested it during the planning stages, because they thought it would bring drugs and hookers and cheap used furniture into town. Wait. That's Craigslist. Nevermind.

Rodney Lacroix

#11. I was then a young and omniscient student (alas, I was soon to lose both these virtues).

Leszek Kolakowski

#12. We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

Beau Willimon

#13. The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad
aka the Fun-Sucker
as opposed to being a friend.

James Patterson

#14. Maybe they have some new line of contacts that gives cute guys an alien, jeweled feel.

Megan Thomason

#15. Mother is the best and the first teacher to the child .

Revathi Sankaran

#16. I'm going to fuck you, and it's going to turn your world on its ass when I do. You will be so strung out over my cock, you'll ache for it like a junkie.

Courtney Lane

#17. For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage
of arguments by which to support it.

Leszek Kolakowski

#18. And been committed to a home for the bewildered

John Boyne

#19. This is a passion story: my passion, his, ours - yours.

Elizabeth Cunningham

#20. We really have no right to reproach God for having created the world. For Him it was the only possible way of escaping from the accursed void in which He found himself.

Leszek Kolakowski

#21. Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

Zhuangzi

#22. Now think deeply.
What have you done with your life over the past year?
How do you feel inside?

Sean Covey

#23. We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Leszek Kolakowski

#24. Is it not reasonable to suspect that if existence were pointless and the universe devoid of meaning, we would never have achieved not only the ability to imagine otherwise, but even the ability to entertain this very thought - to wit, that existence is pointless and the universe devoid of meaning.

Leszek Kolakowski