“A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.” GivingPhilosophyChoicesGoneGenerationsGroupsEconomicConditionsBearsFilledSalvationChosenBrandsVarietyNew Generation Book:Coming of Age in Samoa Source: Coming of Age in Samoa
“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.” NeedsBelieveDoeIdeasPhilosophyHappensFormIndividualOpinionRightsTroubleGroupsTerribleRegardIllnessCriticalMindsetThings HappenSocialismMental IllnessAcquireFacultyBeesSocialistInsignificantTerrible ThingsUnwillingEvaluateBonnets Author:L. Neil Smith
“I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.” DonePhilosophyFocusGroupsLove MyselfI Love MyselfFocus Groups Author:Ralph Lauren
“Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.” WayWantYearsLooksPhilosophyCultureGroupsNativeTribesEmulateElevating Author:Tom Shadyac
“There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.” PhilosophyNextIndividualGroupsWasteDecidedWasting TimeLazinessGodlinessNothing New Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantPhilosophyWantedJobsFallAsksFocusMagicGroupsDesignProductsResearchFalling In LoveAlways BelieveFocus Groups Author:Steve Case
“There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.” PeopleKnowsWayPhilosophyCertainNumbersGroupsTypeFundamentalsAssumingObviousAssumptionEpochPhilosophic Book:Science and the Modern World Source: Science and the Modern World
“Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.” WayPhilosophyWholeHumanityIndividualClassGroupsYogaPropertyCornersCreedsGlobesInclinationYoga Practice Author:K. Pattabhi Jois
“When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but also computer scientists and linguists, it is noteworthy that one can't always tell just from the content of particular contributions from the audience, whether a given questioner is a philosopher or an empirical scientist.” ThinkingPhilosophyGivenAudiencePsychologyGroupsParticularComputerScientistPhilosopherDiscussionContributionPsychologistLinguists Author:Hilary Kornblith
“When I teach a new group of students, I introduce some yoga philosophy, but I don't overload them with information. Just enough so they understand the real tradition behind this ancient practice and that it's not a stretching class. Guys come in and they're a little nervous. I tell them that when they cross the threshold of the door, they're crossing to a different dimension. They're moving from an externally-oriented reality to an internally-oriented one.” LittlesDifferentRealEnoughPhilosophyRealityMovingGuyBehindsClassTeachPracticeDoorsGroupsInformationStudentsYogaTraditionCrossesAncientNervousDimensionsIntroducingCrossingsStretchingThresholdOverloadDifferent Dimensions Author:James Fox