Gary Gutting famous quotes

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What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the â€œlife of the mindâ€: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.
-- Gary Gutting

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Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.
-- Gary Gutting

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Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in fruitful debate. The lively narratives, based on the author's experiences of working with various groups interested in using philosophical tools to clarify their thought and action, will engage a wide range of readers.
-- Gary Gutting

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Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.
-- Gary Gutting

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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Gary Gutting famous quotes

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