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“My own philosophy is that you don't really belong to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.”

World Philosophy My Own Taught Obligation Protected

Author:Jacob K. Javits

“It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.”

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.”

Thinking Years May Different Philosophy Use School Spiritual Church My Own Teaching Bases Catholic Sunday Catholic School Spiritual Teaching

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”

People Ifs Ideas Country Philosophy Home Young Natural My Own Quality Opinion Prejudice Intelligent Philosophical China Chinese Creeds Sophistication Homesick Naivete

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.”

Mind Stills Philosophy My Own Interesting Issues Wonderful Intellectual Curiosity Intense Very Interesting Intellectual Curiosity

Author:Joseph Conrad

“My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.”

Ideas Philosophy Understanding Interest My Own Meditation Late Yoga Indian Sixty Vague Seventies

Author:Paul Harvey

“I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.”

Long Philosophy Force Nations Interest My Own Party Opinion Human Nature Pride Morality Ambition Revenge Vanity Resentment Avarice Power And Strength Force And Power

Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

“Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.”

Two Philosophy My Own Vision Share Brands Identical

Author:Christophe Lemaitre

“Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.”

Children Philosophy My Own Appreciate Roots Ancient Chinese Maturity Child Rearing Education And Knowledge Ancient History

Author:Tess Gerritsen

“Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.”

Thinking Philosophy Asks My Own Presses Conferences Press Conferences

Author:Joel Silver

“[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It was a real rebel position. It was kind of like a teenager's position: why can't things be like they should be? Why can't I do what I want? I latched on to that philosophy. One day I snapped, hey, you know, I know a story that no one's ever told, never seen, and I've lived it. It's my own story and my friends' story.”

Knows Want Should Writing Kind Real Philosophy Stories Wanted My Own Position One Day My Friends Hey Teenager Telling The Truth Rebel Hey You

Author:Larry Clark

“Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.”

Men Should Humans Persons Philosophy Whole Born My Own Race Millions Details Every Man Human Race Lacking

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.”

Different Sometimes Philosophy Past My Own Half Taken Century Philosophical Philosopher Work Out Wide Decades Range Agendas Fashionable

Author:Philip Kitcher