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 came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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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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You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.
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I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.
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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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Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.
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In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.
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The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
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Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
