Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires,… — 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 Romans said that "the good is the enemy of the better," so too "the self-evident is the enemy… — 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When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.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
