"I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I had doubts about becoming a professional philosopher, but the example of two of my teachers, Ezequiel de Olaso and Juan Rodriguez Larreta, made me confirm my original decision."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

#Teacher Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Character Quotes

“You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 23, 2004.
“The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.”
“The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.”
“If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.”
“Good servants frequently make good masters.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.”
“...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.”
“Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the one hand, and rob and debase the government on the other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with the filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap the sacred folds of the Stars and Stripes about them and [about] their blatant hypocrisy to the world.”

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