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From Quotes by Kenny Smith
- 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 compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural…
- Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of…
- The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even…
- Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can…
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle