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“The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.”

Ifs Way Feels Mean Real Home Turns Saws Pride Internet Philosophical Meetings Incredibles Average Debate Parks Lions Wow Existential Invigorating San Diego

Author:Chris Abani

“Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological literature.”

Humans Turns Literature Human Beings Unique Laughter Philosophical Assurance Theoretical Unsure

Author:Simon Critchley

“When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.”

People Ideas Turns Tvs Philosophical Practicals Discussion Frank Turn-on

Author:David O. Russell

“The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.”

Humans Wells Seems Values Turns Social Issues Theory Philosophical Fundamentals Insight Ridiculous Experts Propositions Specialists Human Values Social Theory

Book:The Chomsky Reader

Source: The Chomsky Reader

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

“Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know”

Knows Writing Light Turns Doors Lows Letters Philosophical Chairs

Author:Jann Arden

“We turn from the light to see.”

Light Turns Philosophical

Author:Don Paterson

“One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.”

Men Turns Blood Danger Son Gains Philosophical Property Offering Far Away Greedy Ungrateful Fickle Deceiver

Book:The Portable Machiavelli

Source: The Portable Machiavelli

“Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.”

Knows World Giving Believe Philosophy Turns Language Views Clear Depends Gains Accounts Philosophical Structure Mediums Discovering Our Thoughts Turn-on Systematic Explicit Clear View

Author:Michael Dummett

“Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.”

People Turns Lines Responsibility Crosses Eternity Claims Philosophical Depth Discussion Realms Mortality Infinity Mystical Truck

Author:David Gilmour

“For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.”

Humans Turns Social Human Beings Talent Possibility Development Concepts Capacity Accounts Philosophical Abstract Concrete Anarchist

Book:Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.”

Turns Given Term Philosophical Patience Eight Entrances Harbour Probation

Book:Sailing Alone: Around the World

Source: Sailing Alone: Around the World

“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”

Knows Men World Wisdom Turns Philosophical Libertarian

Author:Epictetus