All Kenny Smith Quotes
- 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
- Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making… Actual
- There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed… Among
- Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander… Bother
- Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to… Act
- Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about… Caustic
- In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their… Accustomed
- "The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes… Abstract
- The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any… Absolutely
- American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the… Across
- It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive… Abstracted
- The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis;… Academia
- 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 of… Academia
- I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed and… Americans
- 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… Always Defeats
- Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of… Another Way