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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8af5760 | Right up front, let me pass on an important lesson I've learned about the role of assumption and belief in our lives. It demonstrates our need for the discipline of philosophy, in an unusual way. | Tom Morris | ||
| 5f26a9b | The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life. Sigmund | Tom Morris | ||
| 94e8122 | On the other side of St John's house is a fake egg timer who can't maintain an erection. He shares the property with a glossy beef burger called Tom, who has been painted by a seven year old magistrate in order to be entered for this year's Miss East Lancashire competition. Next door to them is a Dundee cake with a lisp. | humour non-sequitur satire surreal | St. John Morris | |
| 2991180 | The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl | Tom Morris | ||
| 45e72c3 | For example, Professor Morris Raphael Cohen was a very distinguished philosopher who challenged conventional wisdom in a Yiddish accent. With the diversity and poverty of its students, City College was known as "the poor man's Harvard." | Tom Hofmann | ||
| 5eb270b | History admires the wise, but it elevates the brave. --EDMUND MORRIS | Tom Clancy | ||
| 225dc67 | You cannot plumb the depths of the human heart, nor find out what a man is thinking; how do you expect to search out God, who made all these things, and find out his mind or comprehend his thoughts? -- Apocrypha Judith 8:14 | Tom Morris | ||
| 0091d85 | If we think that we can use our three-pound brains to plumb all the mysteries of creation, we are just being silly. A tiny infant cannot understand the life and work of Albert Einstein. Nor can a beginning school child. But God is much more different from Einstein, and the rest of us, in intelligence and wisdom than Einstein is different from the small child. So we should not expect to understand it all. | Tom Morris | ||
| 6ea02cf | Relativism too often is nothing more than a fancy last gasp of adolescent rebellion. | Tom Morris | ||
| d9b6aab | Even chitlins smell good to a starving man. | Greg Iles | ||
| c2a4b96 | More surprising, perhaps, was that I began to understand something important about humans and trees at that moment. I began to understand our shared history. To look at the world from a tree, as I had done so often in those years, is a fundamentally different way of seeing. It is contemplative and detached and the objects one studies from that height are rendered, at the same time, both majestic and small. A generally commonplace item, in o.. | M.O. Walsh | ||
| 1fa36cb | There's an elegance to simplicity. Keeping things simple allows us to enjoy things more fully, without raising our expectations to unrealistic levels. Very often the most important thing that we can do in our lives is to keep things simple, yet we tend to complicate our lives and situations--often with the best of intentions--adding stress and work and many more details to our lives. Keeping things simple can certainly be a liberating fo.. | Tom Walsh | ||
| 15def6b | Hurry is a thief, pure and simple. And sometimes when we complain about the absence of certain things in our lives, we really aren't missing those things at all--rather, we just don't notice them when they're there because we fly right by them on our way to something else. | Tom Walsh | ||
| c14031c | Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. | Tom Walsh | ||
| f586945 | How much time do we spend searching for happiness, hoping to find it in the new relationship or the new car or the new friendship or the new cell phone that has everything I'd ever want in a cell phone? Yet when these things come into our lives, we feel a sense of gratification for a while, but no real happiness. Person after person in history tells us that happiness is indeed an inside job, something that comes as a result of our attitud.. | Tom Walsh | ||
| 36dde54 | It is well said that we're just borrowing this planet from our children--and what kind of condition are we going to return it in when we pass on? | Tom Walsh | ||
| 15dd26b | just for today, i'll do something nice for someone who's not expecting it. . | Tom Walsh | ||
| 84935a7 | Day Thirty-five just for today, i'll remember that kind words accomplish much more than harsh words. . | Tom Walsh | ||
| 26b1422 | We're making a choice every single time we put something into our mouths. And it's a much more important choice than most people make it out to be. Today, make the choices that are positive ones for your body--and if you stay in the habit of doing so, you'll find that you benefit greatly from those choices. | Tom Walsh | ||
| d225060 | When someone does something that hurts us, it's easy for us to think that if we forgive that person, we're doing so for his or her sake. The truth is, though, that we ourselves benefit the most from our forgiveness. That forgiveness can rid us of the poisons of anger and resentment, two emotions that hold us prisoner and keep us from moving on with our lives in happy and fulfilling ways. When we carry a grudge, we're really carrying arou.. | Tom Walsh | ||
| 5dc70c3 | What do we do when things just don't seem to be going the ways that we think they should, the ways that we want them to, the ways that we try to make them go? It's very frustrating sometimes to feel that the world is doing its own thing without considering our needs and wants--but sometimes, when we trust life, we start to see that our "failures" are simply life's way of pushing us in new and exciting directions--not always gently, of cou.. | Tom Walsh | ||
| 3c7c6ad | It's important to distinguish between needs and wants. Sometimes we spend so much time chasing after our wants that we neglect our true needs, and that's a course of action that over time is bound to harm us. Today it's important to determine what exactly our needs are, and then attend to them so that we can make sure that we're not going to burn out or hit a wall because we haven't taken care of ourselves. Wants are important, too, .. | Tom Walsh | ||
| cfa0080 | So thank you for who you are and for all of your contributions to this world in which we live. Thanks for focusing on the positive, for the more of us who do so there are, the more positive life and energy there will be in the world, and eventually it will grow so much that it will be impossible to ignore. My thanks to you enriches my life, just as your thanks to your neighbor or waitress or clerk enriches yours. | Tom Walsh | ||
| 53d4fd0 | How we like to hold on! Sometimes we're unwilling to let things go just because we know them, and they feel "safe" to us, even if we're talking about something like behaviors that harm us, like defensiveness or addictions. We hesitate to let go because doing so will expose us to the unknown in our own lives, and we'll have to deal with life without this part of ourselves that we've grown so accustomed to. But if we're ever to move on to .. | Tom Walsh | ||
| 69ec177 | Well, see, you've taken care of the most important things," his father said. "Nobody fixes things like God. Once we humble ourselves and start looking to him for direction, and we're willing to do whatever he tells us, he can start turning everything around again, working it all to our good and to his glory. I know all about this now, Tom. Firsthand. You'd be amazed at what God can do, even in a matter of months. That's why I'm here this af.. | Dan Walsh | ||
| d47452c | But no matter how life looks at the moment, if we trust that it looks this way for a reason that will help us and others in the future, we can deal with this moment with a much stronger sense of purpose and acceptance. | Tom Walsh | ||
| cc5f478 | Resentment causes us to stay in the past, our minds focused on the wrongs that have been done to us. It really is time to let go of it just as we would let go of something that's too hot and that would burn us if we held on to it too long. If we hold on to resentment even slightly too long, we're risking great injury--emotional and spiritual--not just to ourselves, but to those we resent, too. So let's let it go. Just for today. | Tom Walsh | ||
| 8c6c42a | for today, i'll hold on to my dreams and respect them. . | Tom Walsh | ||
| 370ace9 | just for today, i'll allow many things to be out of my control. . . . This can be very difficult for many of us. When someone tells us about something bad going on, we tend to want to solve the problem, to exercise some level of control over it. If someone is misbehaving, we often feel obligated to make that person change his or her behavior. But many, many things in this life are not under our control, nor should they be--and we .. | Tom Walsh | ||
| c8c0a16 | just for today, i'll try to maintain a positive perspective, no matter what the situation. . . | Tom Walsh | ||
| 71b7408 | Let's not judge others for chances that they've not had--in fact, let's not judge them at all. Let's accept them right now for who they are | Tom Walsh | ||
| 3de3b22 | Some of us waste a lot of time waiting for teachers to come along, telling ourselves that we can't learn anything important on our own. But learning is something that we easily can do on our own--sometimes we just get caught up in thinking that we have to learn everything about a topic or it's not worth our while, but when we approach our learning with patience, we're able to see that learning a little today and a little tomorrow and a lit.. | Tom Walsh | ||
| 9579388 | Men have special needs too: for example, a man generally needs a higher daily intake of calories than a woman. But this has never been though of as a sign of men's inferiority to women; if anything, it is a sign of strength and an entitlement to extra food. | philosophy politics | Jonathan Wolff | |
| 0297689 | Mill argued in The Subjection of Women (1869) that the sexes should be treated equally both in law and in society more generally. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| bfd5dcd | In a civilized society freedom to offend should be protected, but | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 2cd5246 | As soon as you start to doubt your own existence, the act of doubting proves that you exist as a thinking thing. This | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 1d5f35d | Robert Conquest once announced three laws of politics, the first of which says that everyone is right-wing in the matters he knows about. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 62bed13 | minority opinions should not be silenced just because they are held by very few people. Unfashionable ideas have potential value for the whole of humanity, even if only held by one person: If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 8b900e9 | If Abraham had gone ahead and killed his son he would have done something morally wrong. A father has a basic duty to look after his son, and certainly shouldn't tie him to an altar and cut his throat in a religious ritual. What God asked Abraham to do was to ignore morality and make a leap of faith. In the Bible Abraham is presented as admirable for ignoring this normal sense of right and wrong and being ready to sacrifice Isaac. But could.. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| e2ab05a | One way of approaching the question about what makes a human being the same person over time would be to point out that we are living things. You are the same individual animal that you were as a baby. Locke used the word 'man' (meaning by that 'man or woman') to refer to the 'human animal'. He thought it was true to say that over a life each of us remains the same 'man' in that sense. There is a continuity of the living human being that de.. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 798018b | The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of t.. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 012dac2 | Farm animals aren't the only ones that suffer at the hands of human beings. Scientists use animals for their research. It's not just rats and guinea pigs - cats, dogs, monkeys and even chimpanzees can be found in laboratories, many of them suffering pain and distress as they are drugged or given electric shocks. Singer's test to see if any research is morally acceptable is this: would we be prepared to perform the same experiment on a brain.. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 95dd262 | Machiavelli stresses that it's better as a leader to be feared than to be loved. Ideally you would be both loved and feared, but that's hard to achieve. If you rely on your people loving you, then you risk them abandoning you when times get tough. If they fear you, they will be too scared to betray you. This is part of his cynicism, his low view of human nature. He thought that human beings were unreliable, greedy and dishonest. If you are .. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| de65847 | Ikinci olarak Mill, goruslerin duzenli olarak birbirleriyle karsi karsiya gelmedigi durumda, onlarin yalnizca olu dogmalara donusutugunu dusunur. Ifade edilen gorus yanlis olsa dahi, onun ortodoks goruse karsi bir arguman olusturdugu olgusu, bu gorusu savunanlarin inannclarini savunmaya ve aciklamaya itecektir. Bunun sonucunda, yalnizca bize dogru oldugu soylendigi icin degil, daha ziyade onun lehine argumanlari anladigimiz icin inanclara s.. | Nigel Warburton |