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“There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words, we do all the stuff you're supposed to normally avoid to become enlightened, intentionally.”

Philosophy Stuff Path Enlightenment Enlightened Transient Negation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.”

Feels Writing Children Littles Book Philosophy Young Stuff Secret Novel Children's Books

Author:John Cheever

“I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.”

Looks Philosophy Actors Stuff Directors Editors

Author:Vince Gilligan

“Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.”

Made Soul Philosophy Body Form Individual Stars Stuff Teach Birth Ancient Esoteric

Book:Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn

Source: Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn

“The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde, people who weren't losers but who didn't believe in the work ethic, and argued this thing about guilt or wrote philosophy about idleness.”

People Way Believe Book Philosophy Feelings Stuff Ethics Guilt Guilty Loser Oscars Work Ethic Idleness Wilde Feeling Guilty

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge that our kidneys constitute the major foundation of our philosophical freedom. Only because they work the way they do has it become possible for us to have bones, muscles, glands and brains. Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidney is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.”

Way Kind Said Philosophy Might Stuff Views Brain Blood Majors Function Philosophical Foundation Bones Acknowledge Muscles Recognizing Kidneys Glands

Author:Homer Smith

“I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.”

Kind Philosophy Stuff Findings Eastern Eastern Philosophy

Author:Weyes Blood

“They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.”

Has Beens Philosophy Literature Stuff Class Teach Teaching Department Poetic Harvard Rambling

Author:Dean Wareham

“I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.”

Philosophy Wanted Stuff Creating Bedroom

Author:Jamie Lidell

“It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.”

Way Writing Littles Philosophy Stories Actors Stuff Acting Taken Focus Events Lessons Essence I've Learned Filmmaking Distracted Cliche Good Writing Good Acting

Author:Ben Affleck

“I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.”

Philosophy Stuff Study Type Intellectual Pursuit Studying Philosophy

Author:Van Morrison