"Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it."

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Philosophy Quotes #People Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he's moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain. He who spends his life moving toward his treasures has reason to rejoice. Are you despairing or rejoicing?”
“The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system.”
“Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.”
“I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art”
“Being on the road with rock, its pretty much 90 percent guys.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought.”

Source : Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.119, Simon and Schuster
“Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.”
“Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.”

You may also like:

AndrÃ© Brink
Novelist
Breyten Breytenbach
Writer
Doris Lessing
Novelist
Ian Mcewan
Novelist
Julian Barnes
Writer
Nadine Gordimer
Writer
Paul Auster
Author
Peter Carey
Novelist
Samuel Beckett
Novelist