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“I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.”

Writing Song My Own Simple Events News Philosophical Currents Developing Melody Current Events

Author:Phil Ochs

“Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”

People Ifs Ideas Country Philosophy Home Young Natural My Own Quality Opinion Prejudice Intelligent Philosophical China Chinese Creeds Sophistication Homesick Naivete

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.”

Want Giving Feels Facts Religious My Own Christianity Emotional Masters Type Opposites Philosophical Conversion Gave Up

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context of Aschenbach's life. The literary presentation thus adds to the naked philosophical skeleton.”

My Own Philosophical Add Naked Discussion Invites Episodes Presentation Skeletons Predicaments

Author:Philip Kitcher

“I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.”

Different Sometimes Philosophy Past My Own Half Taken Century Philosophical Philosopher Work Out Wide Decades Range Agendas Fashionable

Author:Philip Kitcher

“As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do.”

School Individual My Own Training Built Philosophical Architecture Debate Visuals Discourse Aesthetics Refined

Author:Jimenez Lai

“I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.”

“I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.”

My Own Gratitude Philosophical Fortune Envy Admire Admiration Dissatisfied Envied Envy And Success

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.”

Long I Can Ideas My Own Philosophical Mistaken My Thoughts

Book:The Works of George Berkeley: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, Etc. : to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

Source: The Works of George Berkeley: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, Etc. : to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

“In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.”

Way Want Art Ideas Ends Life Is Understanding My Own Mistake Path Our Lives Limits Art Is Philosophical Versions Fulfillment Abandon

Author:Arthur Danto