The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness:… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Should a reasonable person not demand that philosophy should not be foolishly purveyed before people incompetent to see the point of it,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions"… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share
If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world. — Kenny Smith Copy Share
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
There are a lot more famous fathers out there than me with daughters who wouldn't mind singing careers... but the talent and the work… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
Games like 'Call of Duty' and 'NBA Baller Beats' have so much to them. I was more of the 'Pac-Man' generation where we were… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people. — Kenny Smith Copy Share
NCAA is looking at how to do a better job enforcing their rules instead of looking at why the predatorial environment is created. There's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
