"Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason â€“ that is, reason divorced from experience."

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Source : Benjamin Wiker (2010). “10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor”, p.14, Regnery Publishing

Benjamin Wiker

#World Quotes #Reason Quotes #Abstract Quotes

“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.”
“Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed to your own life flourishing, and you're being inconsistent if you don't expand it. So philosophy often works in trying to show us that there's an inner incoherence in our points of view. We're all committed to one thing when it comes to us and our own kind, but we're not willing to expand it and we're guilty of inconsistency.”
“blessing the boats (at saint maryâ€™s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that”

Source : Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.”
“The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edith Brower (1968). “Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower”, Belknap Press
“New York feels vibrant It feels electric to walk the streets at night.”
“When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time”
“I hated kissing Zoe Saldana too! I was like, "Take your tongue out of my mouth, please. Your boyfriend is standing right there." Most people think kissing beautiful costars must be great. But it's always awkward, man.”

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