Kolakowski Leszek Quotes & Sayings

Become acquainted with every art. — Miyamoto Musashi

He swallowed hard. "How do you feel?"
"I feel like I want to close these drapes, turn down the lights and crawl into that bed with you and spend the night making love with you. All night." She blushed furiously. ...
"All night, huh?" he asked.
She nodded.
He gave her a sexy grin and repeated her earlier words back to her. "Deal. — Samantha Chase

Jesus himself provides the measuring stick by which we may know whether a teacher or practitioner of the Christian faith is genuine or fraudulent. "You shall know them by their fruit, — Brian Tubbs

The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning! — Sun Myung Moon

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

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

Curiosity, that is, the separate drive to explore the world disinterestedly, without being stimulated by danger or physiological dissatisfaction, is, according to students of evolution, rooted in specific morphological characteristics of our species and thus cannot be eliminated from our minds as long as our species retains its identity. As both Pandora's most deplorable accident and the adventures of our progenitors in Paradise testify, curiosity has been a main cause of all the calamities and misfortunes that have befallen mankind, and it has unquestionably been the source of all its achievements. — Leszek Kolakowski

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are. — Leszek Kolakowski

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion. — Charles Colson

Captured by the ideological animus, both socialist and liberal-democratic art abandoned the criterion of beauty - considered anachronistic and of dubious political value - and replaced it with the criterion of correctness. — Ryszard Legutko

I will never eat another pancake that appears out of nowhere. — Johnny Gruelle

'Mad Men' was one of the first shows where Netflix was the first syndication window. — Jon Feltheimer

Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

I was then a young and omniscient student (alas, I was soon to lose both these virtues). — Leszek Kolakowski

Then, as he is criminal he is selfish. — Bram Stoker

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for. — Isla Fisher

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

Nothing will hinder you more than thinking only about yourself. — Thomas A Kempis

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air. — Dennis Prager

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

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living. — Leszek Kolakowski

I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely. — William Friedkin

We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh ... — Leszek Kolakowski

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

By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God. — Mahatma Gandhi