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“The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.”

“A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.”

Philosophy Process Meditation Buddhism Activity Critical Daily Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Understanding how to find the magic moments in your daily life is critical. If you subscribe to the philosophy that says, "My vacation will free me from burnout," then you`re waiting for a few days out of the year to make up for many days of stress. Instead, you have to be able to take mini-vacations on a daily basis.”

Ifs Years Philosophy Moments Able Life Is Waiting Understanding Magic Bases Stress Critical Daily Life Vacation Burnout Magic Moments

Author:Tony Robbins

“Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as a reformer of not only Hinduism but also the world, who has given all of us a new world view and vision which is critical for the survival of all of us and the entire world.”

World Philosophy Motivation Given Views Vision Lord Teaching Survival India Critical New World Hinduism Advent World View Reformers Beneficiaries Lord Buddha

Author:Narendra Modi

“Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.”

Philosophy Values Existence Critical Hook Standpoint Surveys

Author:Sidney Hook

“If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.”

Ifs Trying Philosophy Hands Faces Desire Democracy Alive Democratic Critical Experiments Dialogue Wrestling Fragile Disposition Domination Dogmatism

Author:Cornel West

“I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least a writer of imaginative work... I do try to make my critical studies imaginative and try to write them in ways that are more like literature than philosophy, but I have disappointed myself because I am still so wedded to criticism.”

Way Want Writing Trying Stills Done Philosophy Literature Study Criticism Relation Critical Novelists Disappointed Imaginative

Author:Marina Warner

“So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can really teach us. The attempts we make to work through problems by reasoning always presuppose starting points, and even the most self-critical philosophers adopt some of those starting points simply by picking them up from the social environments in which they grow up.”

Giving Self Philosophy Problem Social Grows Teach Growing Up Environment Accounts Starting Philosopher Critical Reasoning Crude Starting Point Social Environment

Author:Philip Kitcher

“The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.”

Philosophy Belief Religious Critical Lifestyle Dogmatic

Author:Mike Scheidt

“I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.”

Has Beens Philosophy Justice Quality Share Regret Criticism Extremes Critical I Regret Judicial Successors Sandra Day O Connor

Author:Patrick Leahy