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“The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.”

Men Feels Mind Lasts Views Concern Absolutes Philosophical Superiors Shallow Philosophic Overlapping

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.”

Source: Dynamics of Faith

“Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.”

Ifs Real Pleasure Virtue Behavior Concern Philosophical Vices Sentiments Regulation Uneasiness

Book:A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”

Knows Ideas Different Science Order Understanding Answers Events Concern Function Increase Philosophical Reports Interpretation Implications Factual Philosophical Questions

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.”

People World Made Certain Force Interesting Fiction Novel Psychology Concern Concerned Philosophical Sociology Sociologists Philosophical Questions

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the Aristotelians but you have Scepticism, you have Stoicism, you even have a little bit of Epicureanism. And what happens after Plotinus is that everybody becomes a Neo-Platonist. So if we then go forward to the Islamic world for example, Plotinus is immensely influential, and Neo-Platonism becomes at least one major component of mainstream Islamic philosophy as well.”

“Our intention is to develop more subtlety in contemporary electronic sounds. We don't like nostalgic projects. We have disparate interests and many philosophical concerns. In the past 10 years, I have realized music in the classical tradition - I have composed for strings, brass, and electronic, and alp-horn!”

Past Interest Concern Tradition Philosophical Intention Nostalgic Subtlety

Author:Thomas Koner

“I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.”

Trying Believe Art Helping I Believe Morality Concern Theater Philosophical Statements Psychological Underdog

Author:Jeff Koons

“In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.”

Thinking Doe Matter Practice Issues Subjects Photography Concern Philosophical Photographer Photograph Subject Matter

Author:John Szarkowski

“There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.”

Concern Philosophical Contradiction Paradox

Author:Evan Parker

“Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained--a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.”

Has Beens Ideas Character Asks Inspire Judging Theory Concern Performances Philosophical Senses Certainty Strict Competent Genesis Neutrality Pedigree

Book:Philosphical Discussions

Source: Philosphical Discussions

“There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.”

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