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Let no one drag you so low as to hate them"-Martin Luther King Jr. — Elle Jefferson
One line lands in a word and one wordlands in a line and
there you have it the secret of poetry — Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.
— Simon Blackburn
Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of her wonders.
— Simon Blackburn
Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.
— Simon Blackburn
Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?
— Simon Blackburn
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.
— Simon Blackburn
There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.
— Stephan Jenkins
Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?
— Simon Blackburn
Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous .
— Simon Blackburn
getting clear about the right categories with which to understand human motivation, is an important practical task.
— Simon Blackburn
Inspiration follows aspiration.
— Rabindranath Tagore
When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.
— Simon Blackburn
We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.
— Simon Blackburn
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.
— Simon Blackburn
In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.
— Simon Blackburn
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.
— Simon Blackburn
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.
— Simon Blackburn
How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all.
— Simon Blackburn
Everyone was boarding a night train, heading to a far-off destination. Tsukuru envied them. At least they had a place they needed to go to.
— Haruki Murakami
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
— Pat Conroy
An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.
— Simon Blackburn
Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.
— Simon Blackburn
Chance is as relentless as necessity.
— Simon Blackburn