Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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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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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
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So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
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There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.
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A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
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It is not that we cannot think. It is that we are afraid to think. It is so much easier to go with the tide than against it, to shout with the crowd than to stand lonely and suspect in the midst of it. Even some of us who try to escape this hypnotism of the flock do not succeed in thinking independently. We only succeed in getting into other flocks.
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We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
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Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
