Kenny Smith Quotes

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• Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of…
• What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head…
• But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to…
• How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the…
• Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego,…
• Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to…
• "Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing…
• I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition…
• Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights…
• The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of…
• Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the…
• Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the…
• Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so…
• People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are…
• In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego…
• What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual…
• All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination…
• Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their…
• The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not…
• There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the…

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