"Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism……" — Robert C. Solomon
"Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]"
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38 Quotes by Robert C. Solomon
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Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it,…
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All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.
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Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.
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Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.
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Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.
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True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and…
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Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.
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Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without…
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Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.
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Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which…
— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
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Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple…
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Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of…
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That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.
— Mark Ruffalo
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite…
— Andre Gide
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Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
— Michael McKean
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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities…
— Paul Cezanne
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
— Boris Pasternak
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First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
— Alexander Chase
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