“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 human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.” MindHumansPhilosophyOrderProcessChaosVarietyHuman MindChaotic Author:Frederick Lenz
“Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.” HumansArtPhilosophyProblemAgeEvilForgetExistenceMoralEternityUnityCreatorVarietyGood And EvilParadoxResolveVoidMechanismHuman ExistenceDeterminismRelativismAbsolutismMoral Absolutism Author:Frank Barron
“A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.” IfsMayDoePhilosophyRealityPoliticalDealsFictionIdealsContemporaryVarietyPolitical PhilosophyPolitical ScienceTrickery Author:Revilo P. Oliver
“I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.” ThinkingDifferentPhilosophyStreetsVarietyStreet Life Author:Cornel West