“It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.” WorldThreeReligiousLeaderCreativityPathSadnessPhilosophicalCatholicExtremesPassingPassingsArtisticHolinessPopeJohn PaulJohn Paul IiArtistic CreativityPope John Paul Author:Mohammad Khatami
“Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.” AgeOrderProcessDyingComfortBedPhilosophicalMedicineDemocraticPassingPassingsSicknessRemedyPlatoSkepticalDoseMaladyMoralist Author:Alain Badiou
“The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.” MeanMomentsTimeIndividualTermExpressionBattlePhilosophicalKillingPassingPassingsEnjoymentRelaxVocabularyTempoSavoringTime To Kill Book:Bottoms up! Source: Bottoms up!
“The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.” PeopleWayBlackTalkingMusicRecordsOur LivesBasesPhilosophicalHistoricalDecadesPassingPassingsBlack PeopleContinuityWay Of TalkingPassing It Author:Sherley Anne Williams
“The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.” WayImportantAmericaSituationInformationExpressionTraditionPhilosophicalResponsePassingPassingsOral Tradition Author:August Wilson
“The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.” FeelsMindRealSpeakProcessClearInvolvedReflectionShadowPhilosophicalObviousPassingPassingsAnalysisDefiniteVaguePreciseAmbiguousReal Truth Book:Russell's Logical atomism Source: Russell's Logical atomism
“I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).” IdeasPhilosophyTasksEssencePhilosophicalMethodPhilosopherPassingPassingsWelcomeDefinedAnalysisGrasping Author:Robert Adams
“Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.” WritingMindHumorFictionCompassionHugeMajorsMessagesPhilosophicalImpactPassingPassingsFiction WritersNo Compassion Author:Theodore Sturgeon