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“A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.”
“A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“A philosophical question is by definition something that each generation, each individual even, must ask over and over again.”
Source: Sophie’s World
“A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.”
“A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.”
“A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.”
“A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.”
“A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.”
Source: Grace Notes
“A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one-a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law.”
“A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of goods is necessary for a man to lead a good life, and we have to make that kind of society where it is easier for men to be good.”
Source: The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus
“A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.”
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable”
Source: Philosophy: Principles and Problems
“A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.”
“A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools”
“A phobia is an excessive or unreasonable fear of an object, situation or place. Phobias are quite common and often take root in childhood for no apparent reason. Other times they spring from traumatic events or develop from an attempt to make sense of unexpected and intense feelings of anxiety or panic.
Simple phobias are fears of specific things such as insects, infections, or even flying. Agoraphobia is a fear of being in places where one feels trapped or unable to get help, such as in crowds, on a bus or in a car, or standing in a line. It is basically an anxiety that ignites from being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult (or embarrassing). A social phobia is a marked fear of social or performance situations.
When the phobic person actually encounters, or even anticipates, being in the presence of the feared object or situation, immediate anxiety can be triggered. The physical symptoms of anxiety may include shortness of breath, sweating, a racing heart, chest or abdominal discomfort, trembling, and similar reactions. The emotional component involves an intense fear and may include feelings of losing control, embarrassing oneself, or passing out.
Most people who experience phobias try to escape or avoid the feared situation wherever possible. This may be fairly easy if the feared object is rarely encountered (such as snakes) and avoidance will not greatly restrict the person’s life. At other times, avoiding the feared situation (in the case of agoraphobia, social phobia) is not easily done. After all, we live in a world filled with people and places. Having a fear of such things can limit anyone’s life significantly, and trying to escape or avoid a feared object or situation because of feelings of fear about that object or situation can escalate and make the feelings of dread and terror even more pronounced.
In some situations of phobias, the person may have specific thoughts that contribute some threat to the feared situation. This is particularly true for social phobia, in which there is often a fear of being negatively evaluated by others, and for agoraphobia, in which there may be a fear of passing out or dying with no one around to help, and of having a panic attack where one fears making a fool of oneself in the presence of other people.
Upon recognizing their problem for what it is, men should take heart in knowing that eighty percent of people who seek help can experience improvement of symptoms or, in male-speak, the illness can be “fixed.”
Source: But You LOOK Just Fine: Unmasking Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder and Seasonal Affective Disorder
“A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.”
“A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.”
“A photo essay (otherwise known as a fucking slide show)...”
Source: You
“A photo is a creation.”
“A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.”
“A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.”
“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.”
“A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”
“A photograph can look any way.”
“A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.”
“A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.”
Source: Photomontages of the Nazi Period
“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through generations, it can transfer knowledge through time, it can change cultures or it can create revolutions.”
“A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.”
“A photograph develops in a tray of liquid. Previously it’s been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope; now it has a function, an image, a certainty. We slide the photo quickly into the tray of fixer to secure that clear, vulnerable moment, to make the image harder, unchippable, solid for at least a few years. But what if you plunge it into the fixer and the chemical doesn’t work? This progress, this amorous motion you feel, might refuse to stabilize. Have you seen a picture go on relentlessly developing until its whole surface is black, its celebratory moment obliterated?”
Source: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
“A photograph does not present us with ‘likenesses’ of things; it presents us, we want to say, with the things themselves. But wanting to say that may well make us ontologically restless. ‘Photographs present us with things themselves’ sounds, and ought to sound, paradoxical … It is no less paradoxical or false to hold up a photograph of Garbo and say, ‘That is not Garbo,’ if all you mean is that the object you are holding up is not a human creature. Such troubles in notating so obvious a fact suggest that we do not know what a photograph is; we do not know how to place it ontologically. We might say that we don’t know how to think of the connection between a photograph and what it is a photograph of.”
Source: The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition
“A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.”
“A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.”
“A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.”
“A photograph has edges the world does not.”
Source: The nature of photographs
“A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.”
Source: Edward Weston on photography
“A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.”
“A photograph is a biography of a moment.”
“A photograph is a frozen moment, but a great photographer captures the soul of that moment.”
“A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.”
Source: Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography
“A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.”
“A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.”
“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel
“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel
“A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.”
“A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.”
“A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?”
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”