How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or… — 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
"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
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
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 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
I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I've… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or… — 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
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
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
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
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 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
A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
What made it so special was the city of Houston had never won a sports championship. I think the championship changed people's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it… — 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 Image
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 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
If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
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 Image
