Edward Feser Quotes
Now I realize, of course, that many readers will acknowledge that we do in fact have these reactions, but would nevertheless write them off as mere reactions. “Our tendency to find something personally disgusting,” they will sniff, “doesn’t show that there is anything objectively wrong with it.” This is the sort of stupidity-masquerading-as-insight that absolutely pervades modern intellectual life, and it has the same source as so many other contemporary intellectual pathologies: the abandonment of the classical realism of the great Greek and Scholastic philosophers, and especially of Aristotle’s doctrine of the four causes.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
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I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.
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Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
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Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.
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My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.
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It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
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a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
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Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.
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I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
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Now I realize, of course, that many readers will acknowledge that we do in fact have these reactions, but would nevertheless write them off as mere reactions. “Our tendency to find something personally disgusting,” they will sniff, “doesn’t show that there is anything objectively wrong with it.” This is the sort of stupidity-masquerading-as-insight that absolutely pervades modern intellectual life, and it has the same source as so many other contemporary intellectual pathologies: the abandonment of the classical realism of the great Greek and Scholastic philosophers, and especially of Aristotle’s doctrine of the four causes.
