“It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.” ImportantAmericaRememberCultureLiteratureDemocracySeriousRussiaGermanyJapanLatinThinkerLatin AmericaCompatible Author:Natan Sharansky
“Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but if you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.” IfsWorldWayLifeHumansLooksHeartWholeEyeJoyHuman BeingsSeriousPhilosopherWhole WorldThinkerBlindnessSeriousnessOpen Your Heart Author:Rajneesh
“I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.” PeopleWantShouldProblemBigsWantedPoorSubjectsSeriousWasteEatingThinkerConsumptionDocumentariesPoor PeopleSerious Subjects Author:Agnes Varda
“Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.” SeriousReaderPopulationThinkerEssays Author:Alan Lightman
“To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.” WonderSeriousMiracleThinkerAcceptableImmenseUnnecessaryWonder Of Nature Author:Fritz Zwicky
“Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined brand,- as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.” IfsYearsIdeasHardReasonLeftSpeakLanguagePresidentPartyLeaderPolicySeriousBrokenBuiltFortuneMarketingBrandsThinkerRuinedMarketersFollowershipPushed Away Author:Peggy Noonan
“Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.” ThinkingIdeasAgeStepsSeriousPhilosopherLabelsJust OneThinkerNew AgeFuzzyAbhorrent Author:Marianne Williamson
“[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.” PersonsMadeViewsInfluenceCenturyParticularSeriousEnormousUsaThinkerTheologicalNineteenth CenturyDeterminism Author:Oliver D. Crisp