Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

In economics hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

The middle class is so funny it's the class I know best and it's the class where you find the most pretension so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.