Leonard Lawlor famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Here's a philosophical rule of thumb: always start with the negative definitions. Negative definitions are always easier to understand. So, here's a negative definition. We must not conceive difference in terms of the differences we find between things that already exist. Difference is not empirical differences.
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When we follow the reversal of normal experience, we find ourselves in an unusual, nearly mad experience. Being in an almost mad experience is not something we should fear: only in such experience are we jarred out of our common sense opinions and beliefs. It opens our minds to other ideas and thought. It makes us think.
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The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling in me a desire for learning. However, the Catholic training also gave me a desire for questioning. The desire to question led me eventually to distance myself from the Catholic institution and its dogma.
-- Leonard Lawlor
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That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
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Dancers are the athletes of God.
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Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
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Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships,
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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
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By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.
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The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
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