Harry Frankfurt Quotes

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

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• Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Silence
  • Mystery
  • Diffidence

• This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • You
  • Class
  • Lower Class

• Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Never Been

• There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Different
  • Player

• From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Generations
  • Nonsense

• Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Guy

• First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Passages
  • Impediments
  • Own Minds

• I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mountains
  • Carried
  • Sufferer

• More matter with less art.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Matter
  • Polonius

• By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

  

  William Trevor
  • People
  • Character
  • Ends

• Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Couches
  • Psychiatry
  • Teaching People

• My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Dead
  • Hopes
  • Doom

• Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Teacher
  • Philosophy
  • Interest

• The basic issue about being too close is being closer than you're comfortable with. For some people, even slightly close is too much and for other people being enormously close is great.

  

  Arthur Aron
  • Being
  • Issue
  • Closer

• I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

  

  Erskine Caldwell
  • Remember
  • Philosopher
  • Storyteller

• You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Flood
  • Winds
  • Drawer

• As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

  

  Harry Frankfurt
  • Philosopher
  • Wilderness