T Quotes
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“The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought.”
“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
“The phenomenon of play is local: that is, while the phenomenon of play is universal, the experience of play is intrinsically tied to location and culture.”
Source: Critical Play: Radical Game Design
“The phenomenon of praying is beyond description.”
“The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."”
“The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.”
“The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.”
“The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.”
“The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.”
“The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.”
“The phenomenon which is troublesome, which doesn’t fit in with the current scientific theories, is the phenomenon which compels reconsideration and thus leads to new knowledge, Science progresses because scientists, instead of running away from such troublesome phenomena or hushing them up, are constantly seeking them out.”
Source: God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
“The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.”
“The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points.”
“The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution”
“the philanthropic NGO has long been decried by the left as a means of addressing only the symptoms of poverty and thus obscuring the political strategies needed to overcome it. NGOs are criticised for creating Potemkin villages not replicable at scale. their limits are often painfully apparent. some are ‘briefcase’ NGOs, to give their founders income or profit.”
Source: AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“The philanthropic spirit is a rich soil where seeds of generosity, when sown collectively, sprout into forests of positive change.”
Source: Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money
“The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.”
“The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.”
Source: God of the Machine
“The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.”
“The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism.”
“The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.”
“The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America.”
“The Philippines bear witness to the youthfulness and vitality of the Church.”
“The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.”
Source: A Compilation of Selected Presidential Speeches: Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines
“The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.”
“The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.”
“The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.”
“The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.”
“The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.”
“The Philippines is where the love is.”
“The Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime claims with China using the tribunal established under the Law of the Sea Convention (Unclos). The tribunal's ruling delivered a clear and legally binding decision on maritime claims in the South China Sea as they relate to China and the Philippines - and that ruling should be respected. We believe this decision can and should serve as an opportunity to renew efforts to address maritime claims peacefully.”
“The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.”
“The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.”
Source: Small perfect things
“The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.”
“The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“The philosopher alone knows how to live for himself: he is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing, how to live.”
Source: Why I am a Stoic
“The philosopher and ethicist Jonathan Glover reports the story of Odilo Globocnik, the Nazi SS leader in Lublin, Poland, who recalled an incident in which he expressed to another Nazi officer, a Major Hofle, how much it bothered him to think about the Polish children freezing to death while being transported by the Nazis from Lublin to Warsaw. He could not look at these young children without thinking of his own three-year-old niece. Hofle, he recalled, looked at me 'like [I was] an idiot.' Sometime later, Hofle’s own baby twins died of diphtheria and, at the cemetery, he cried out that it was heaven’s punishment for his misdeeds.”
Source: The Rational Bible: Exodus
“The philosopher and historian George Santayana once remarked that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. A perusal of some of the essays will reveal that this is not always true. In some cases psychologists have known about mistakes of the past and sought to repeat them. But the recurrence can sometimes be fruitful: going round in circles can be a good thing, provided the circle is large that when one returns to the task one sees it in a new light and the error brings new insights.”
Source: Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology
“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.”
“The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
“The philosopher caught in the nets of language.”
“The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.”
“The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.”
“The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.”
Source: The Song of the Bird
“The philosopher Edmund Pincoffs has argued that consequentialists and deontologists worked together to convince Westerners in the twentieth century that morality is the study of moral quandaries and dilemmas. Where the Greeks focused on the character of a person and asked what kind of person we should each aim to become, modern ethics focuses on actions, asking when a particular action is right or wrong. ... This turn from character ethics to quandary ethics has turned moral education away from virtues and toward moral reasoning. If morality is about dilemmas, then moral education is training in problem solving.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.”
“The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.”
“The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.”
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
“The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete