Anthony John Patrick Kenny Quotes

Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge; it is a matter of understanding, that is to say, of organizing what is know.

Anthony John Patrick Kenny

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• I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Soul
  • Myself

• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Paranoid

• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • World
  • Better
  • Doing

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Love
  • Justice
  • Bible

• I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Done

• In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Change
  • Husband

• I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Books
  • Scary

• The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Purpose
  • Sad

• The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Best

• Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve - much as the effort to explore the earth ran out of new continents to explore.

  

  David Gross
  • Earth
  • Wonder
  • Effort

• Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Age

• I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Up

• Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

  

  Kurt Masur
  • Beautiful
  • Beginning

• I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

  

  Max Lucado
  • Good
  • Great
  • Real

• I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Good
  • College

• When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

  

  David Baltimore
  • Brain

• I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • Work

• Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

  

  John Malkovich

• I try to stay level-headed and it's always the way I've been. Sometimes your personality out in the real world, you want to take that into your sport because that's where you feel comfortable. You never want to try to do something that's not you or you don't feel comfortable doing. That's where you get in trouble. It's the only way I've played sports and done things. I'm low-key, but I'm very competitive and hate to lose.

  

  Eli Manning
  • World
  • Real
  • Done

• Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

  

  Aza Raskin
  • Knowledge
  • Hiring

• I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Great
  • Independent

• Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge; it is a matter of understanding, that is to say, of organizing what is know.

  

  Anthony John Patrick Kenny
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Philosophy