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“Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.”

Men World Mind Philosophy Age Action Youth Shapes Reflection Aspect Affair Determine Practicals Impression Resolution

Book:Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

“Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.”

Knows Needs Trying Looks Mean Philosophy Moving Order Language Talking Imagine Perception Solutions Definitions Determine Psychological Retiring Relevant Mazes Berkeley

Author:David Berman

“No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.”

Way May Philosophy School Consciousness Conscious Determine Antithesis

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.”

Hard Philosophy Certain Turns Attitude Quality Our Lives Willing Hard Work Amount Activity Ethics Labor Fortune Determine Commit Work Ethic Ratios

Author:Jim Rohn