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Very Quotes by Kenny Smith
- 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 that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination…
- 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…
- 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;…
- 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…
- (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…
- 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,…
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