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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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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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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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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Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.
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There's never been a better time to be a worker with special skills or the right education, because these people can use technology to create and capture value.
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Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.
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Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
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Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
