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

• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• 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

• We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• 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

• When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • You
  • End
  • Step

• 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

• They are women who are standing on their feet in spite of their circumstances, not because of it. Think of how the world can be a much better place if, for a change, we have a better equality, we have equality, we have a representation and we understand war, both from the front-line and the back-line discussion.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• 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

• An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Mind

• When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

  

  Isabelle Holland
  • Free
  • Consequences
  • You Do

• Books … hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

  

  Dave Pelzer
  • People
  • Strong
  • Desire

• 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