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“You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Philosophy Film Sound Direct Asking Response Pompous

Author:Michel Gondry

“Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.”

Mind Doe Philosophy Blood Food Youth Emotional Painting Response Passionate Delight Theology No Response

Book:The Documents in the Case

Source: The Documents in the Case

“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

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”

Ifs Philosophy Past Accepting History Our Lives Wind Universal Response Males Definitions Myth Bias Our Past Lenses Drifting

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“There is a reason Christianity is violently opposed in our world while other religions and philosophies are tolerated... Biblical Christianity evokes violent responses from some people, because only in Christianity is there an absolute right and wrong. People hate the Bible and Christianity because of the law of God.”

People World Reason Philosophy Christian Law Hate Religious Christianity Absolutes Response Violent Our World Biblical Evoke

Book:Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God

Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God