All Kenny Smith Quotes
- 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… Accomplish
- What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head… Antagonistic
- 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… Alas
- 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… Across
- 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,… All
- 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… Addictively
- "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… Actual
- 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… Belief
- 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… Accommodate
- 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… All
- 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… Absolutely
- 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… Aristic
- 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… Accommodated
- 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… Acuity
- 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… All
- 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… 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… Accomplish
- 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… Achieve
- 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… Action
- 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… Absolute
- Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond… Appearance
- People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values.… Anyone
- Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity." Alien
- Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. Assert
- It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of… Accountability