Pretentious Philosophy Quotes

#1. I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

Victoria Woodhull

#2. I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.

Mario Sorrenti

#3. In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

Arundhati Roy

#4. Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

George Crabbe

#5. Let us try for once not to be right.

Tristan Tzara

#6. I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

Marilyn Manson

#7. You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. The key to a good meal is simplicity and the right seasoning.

Buddy Valastro

#9. The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.

Joseph Conrad

#10. I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

Angela Davis

#11. Never be limited by others' inability to think of you in terms big enough or dreams grand enough. Never allow yourself to define what is possible for you in your life by others' limited vision of what they believe is possible for them in theirs.

Judy M. Ford

#12. Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them.

Neale Donald Walsch

#13. One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy.

George Carlin