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“I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humor doesn't know what he's talking about.”

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Author:Jackie Mason

“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.”

People Way Black Talking Music Records Our Lives Bases Philosophical Historical Decades Passing Passings Black People Continuity Way Of Talking Passing It

Author:Sherley Anne Williams

“Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.”

Firsts Book Matter Talking Philosophical Examination Magnitude Not Talking

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics, I think, are more indicative of problems with some things going on at the frontier of physics than ideas that are gonna last.”

People Thinking Long Has Beens Ideas Problem Lasts Talking Long Time Philosophical Currents Physics Frontiers Incarnation Multiverse

Author:Adam Frank

“Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to challenge the accretion, the intellectual accretion, the philosophical secretion that generates within the edifice of white supremacy that allows people easy escape, and egress. And I'm saying, "No, you can't leave now. You cannot afford to not know what I'm talking about, because you gotta be held accountable."”

People Knows Easy Challenges White Fiction Talking Intellectual Philosophical Myth Narrative Construction White Supremacy Saying No Supremacy Whiteness Artifice Edifice

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.”

People Kind Understanding Talking Generations New York Philosophical Old People My Generation People Talking

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”

Firsts Art Speak Work Talking Treats Philosophical Works Of Art

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?”

Writing Long Lying Fall Talking Honesty Shapes Degrees Conscious Philosophical Artistic Thought Provoking Provoking Telling Lies

Book:A patriot after all, 1940-1941

Source: A patriot after all, 1940-1941

“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

Thinking Life Soul Talking Philosophical Always Thinking Greek Philosopher Change Your Thoughts Thoughts And Thinking Thinking Process Thinking Alike

Author:Plato

“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”

Thinking Mind Talking Psychology Communication Philosophical Psychological

Author:Plato

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”

Inspirational Ideas States Moments Dream Sleep Talking Prove Wake Up Philosophical Awake Waking Our Thoughts Wise Man Once Said Greek Philosopher

Book:Writings of Plato

Source: Writings of Plato