All Kenny Smith Quotes
- Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence… Among
- Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism… Abstract
- If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their… Abusers
- I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained… Americans
- Should a reasonable person not demand that philosophy should not be foolishly purveyed before people incompetent to see the point of it, as pearls before… Correct
- I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people… Beings
- Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural… All
- Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth… Apathy
- So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at… Aborted
- "Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official… Agnosticism
- (The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more comprehensive: they project… All
- The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking. Abstractions
- 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. -People who think… All
- Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the… Abstractions
- I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a continuous system of… Abstract
- 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. In our culture-so… Autarkia
- Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like… Able
- Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially… Actualities
- Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation,… Abstractivist
- Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These… Academia