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“I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.”
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“I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract†or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.”
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“The God who speaks with utmost integrity must have messengers who represent him well.”
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“I also think it's crucial to convey that the [Black] Movement largely succeeded because of the unwavering dedication of young people willing to risk their comfort, their safety, their lives.”
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“Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.”
Source : Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”
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“In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.”
Source : Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons
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“As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.”
