Sidney Hook Quotes
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
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I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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That is what we know how to do better than anyone else: We know how to maximize value for our projects. If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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Circumstances will determine what I term the survival value of humankind’s moral compass. Being highly moral in an immoral environment will almost certainly be detrimental to one’s survival and vice versa.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.
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Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.
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There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
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You can get good at finding access in the entertainment business. But the ideas, the narratives themselves, they are the only things that are going to be of any value.
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They all subscribed to the existence of many gods and all were based on cultic acts of worship, such as sacrifice, prayer, and divination. As such, they were by and large inclusive. None of them insisted their god was the only divine being, or that this god was to be worshiped in only one particular way everywhere. As a corollary, these religions were highly tolerant of differences. So too was the Roman government, both centrally in Rome and throughout the provinces. There were exceptions, but only when a cult was judged to be morally degenerate or socially dangerous.
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For whatever reason, I enjoy eating soggy cereal.
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I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.
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I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.
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Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
