Cornel West
Philosopher
"Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love."
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Superficial Things
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Educator, Activist
"Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it."
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial things" as "fashionable consumption" and other pursuits more fitting for the "bewildered herd" than participation in determining the course of individual and social life."
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone"
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