{"quotes":[{"text":"Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays….","author":"Stephen Fry","tags":["english","humour","pretentiousness","university"],"id":6608,"author_id":"Stephen+Fry"},{"text":"You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.","author":"Ahmed Mostafa","tags":["broken-heart","broken-hearted","fake-love","faking-it","lost-love","lost-love","pretending","pretentiousness","shattered","shattered-heart","shattered-souls","tolerance","toleration"],"id":19219,"author_id":"Ahmed+Mostafa"},{"text":"A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["falsehood","goal","guru","honesty","humility","intellectuals","meaning","practicality","practicality-for-intellectuals","pretentiousness","profound","purpose","sage","truth","usefulness","wisdom","wise-man"],"id":48001,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain.","author":"T.J. Kirk","tags":["art","pretentious","pretentiousness"],"id":60346,"author_id":"T.J.+Kirk"},{"text":"I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["above-and-beyond","assurance","certainty","concealment","confidence","foolishness","humility","intelligence","philosophy","pretentiousness","profound","self-assurance","theory","within"],"id":70615,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it.","author":"Marianne Moore","tags":["disgust","poet","poets","pretention","pretentious","pretentiousness"],"id":76286,"author_id":"Marianne+Moore"},{"text":"The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","apologetics","artificial","atheism","authenticity","belief","counterfeit","deception","demonstration","example","experience","faith","fake","false","false-prophet","false-teaching","faux","genuine","god","god-fearing","guru","honesty","hope","illusion","imitation","impractical","irrational","magician","meaning","pantheism","practical","pretentiousness","profound","prophet","purpose","rational","real","reality","religion","science","spirituality","teaching","theism","truth"],"id":83580,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["addiction","apologetics","appearance","arrogance","brain","care","caution","cognition","comedy","egghead","excess","funny","funny-but-true","genius","glass","honesty","humility","humor","intelligence","joke","know-it-all","knowledge","laughter","not-knowing","obsession","obsessive","overdoing-it","overflow","overthinking","parody","philosophy","pretentiousness","pride","profound","psychology","ridicule","science","theology","thinking","wisdom"],"id":106670,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["big-nose","complexity","comprehension","distraction","experimenting","genius","intelligence","knowledge","philosophy","pretentiousness","profound","science","simplicity","solving-problems","theology","truth","understanding","wisdom"],"id":128556,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["authenticity","be-you","be-yourself","be-yourself","believe-in-yourself","bravery","columbus","courage","exploration","fake-people","fear","fearless","fearlessness","geniune","honesty","imperfection","inauthenticity","inner-peace","inner-strength","insecurity","limitations","masks","masquerade","phoney","pretending","pretense","pretentiousness","real","self-awareness","self-belief","self-esteem","self-love","self-realization","true-self","vulnerability"],"id":130657,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}