Alexander Nehamas Quotes

Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project one’s own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience.

Alexander Nehamas

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• I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

  

  Valentino Garavani
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• I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

  

  Maggie Grace
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• When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
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• Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
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• It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

  

  Imran Khan
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• Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

  

  Emil Cioran

• It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

  

  Lois Wyse
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• This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Spiritual
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• The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

  

  Alice James
  • Fun
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• Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Wish
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• Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Hollywood
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• One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
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• There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

  

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• All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

  

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• Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

  

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• I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

  

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• [During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Work
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• All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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• It's important for me to highlight my views for veterans who've fought for America and at the same time don't have anything to show for it. It's kind of dear to me.

  

  2 Chainz
  • Important
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• Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project one’s own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience.

  

  Alexander Nehamas
  • Views
  • Project
  • Metaphysics