Kenny Smith Quotes

• Los estadounidenses han sido educados desde su más tierna infancia para ser o bien douloi unilateral o bien banausoi unilateral, es decir, o bien no pueden pensar de forma abstracta/conceptual/orquestal o bien sólo pueden pensar de forma abstracta. Pensar en una dialéctica verdaderamente racional entre la intuición y el intelecto está fuera del alcance de nuestra nación de idiotas emocionalistas. Lo que prevalece entre nosotros realmente tiene que ser llamado no pensar sino "pensamiento", un patético sustituto del pensamiento real en beneficio de las mentalidades existencial o modalmente lisiadas.

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  Thinking, Years, Intuition

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• Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.

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  Philosophy, Lust, Words Of Wisdom

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• Ilustración instantánea. La quintaesencia del modernismo, la cultura y la religión acomodadas a la era de la comida rápida y las pegatinas en los parachoques. Pero la psique y el espíritu no están tan exentos del dominio natural como para producir un autocambio instantáneo, a la carta. La sabiduría se precipita a través de un aparato notoriamente lento de retortas y frascos, y sólo tiene que encontrar terreno receptivo en una mente debidamente aderezada.

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  Wisdom, Self, Mind

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• Lamentablemente, lo que nos parece obvio siempre vence a nuestro pensamiento de formas más penetrantes: igual que los romanos decían que "lo bueno es enemigo de lo mejor", también "lo evidente es enemigo del propio proceso de clarificación o comprensión", por no hablar del enemigo de lo "trascendente o último".

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  Thinking, Self, Understanding

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• The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you muster at him. Not absolutely everything can or should have to be explained, and particularly not to everybody. But a concussion is a value-judgment anyone gets the point of.

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  Pain, Memories, Philosophy

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• ¿Cuál puede ser el significado de tantas formas de "espiritualidad" en este planeta que son antagónicas a la "vida" - y el cristianismo a la cabeza de esa lista, con su "calumnia" contra la vida, su fe en que sólo porque nada en la vida es eterno por lo tanto la vida en sí misma no contiene ningún valor, nada que haga que valga la pena vivir, invertir nuestras almas, comprometer nuestras conciencias?

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  Life, Philosophy, Soul

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• In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their intellectual sloth for their "principles," to their rhetorical cleverness for their "conscience," and to their regimented conformism for their "philosophy."

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  Philosophy, Intellectual, Sloth

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• Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ourselves without altering it, "like a bird caught with a limestick." But the reality is, every truth we manage to know is altered, deformed by our very "encheiresis naturae," by the act of our taking-in-hand of nature (to borrow the alchemists' phrase from Goethe's Faust).

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  Truth, Nice, Reality

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• The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even the one thing they think is most certainly true, i.e. the confidence that they are truly Christians.

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  Christian, Philosophy, Thinking

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• I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I've never seen on television. I don't look at our show as a basketball show. I look at our show as a sports and entertainment show.

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  Baloncesto, Deportes, Pensamiento

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• Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.

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  Filosofía, Gente, Intento

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• The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.

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  Philosophy, Mistake, Thinking

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• Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the Thisness (Haecceitas) of what is before them. Thinking is like a Stradivarius that has more potential variations in how it is played than any human can finitely perform or capture.

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  Filosofía, Pensamiento, Personas

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• Nietzsche tiene toda la razón, incluso más hoy que cuando lo escribió en Así habló Zaratustra: Busqué seres humanos a mi alrededor, pero todo lo que vi fueron fragmentos, criaturas deformes con demasiados ojos o demasiados oídos. Esto es lo que la cultura moderna del intelecto especializado -el tipo de unilateralidad que sólo el utilitarismo banáusico puede valorar- se esfuerza tanto en producir.

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  Philosophy, Eye, Too Much

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• People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are merely incidental, not the essence of the matter. Philosophy is about subtilizing and tuning up the coherence and acuity of one's seeing, it is about opening new dimensions for insight, learning to think about what one is doing when one thinks instead of just blundering through the processes of putting thoughts together.

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  Wisdom, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Como siempre, la ilusión de autotrascendencia es mucho más fácil y disponible que la propia autotrascendencia: en la gran mayoría de los casos, a lo que se abre la conciencia humana es simplemente a una forma más abarcadora de finitud (otra ilusión o engaño cautivador).

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  Philosophy, Self, Majority

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• Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.

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  Education, Philosophy, Stupid

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• Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.

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  Philosophy, Passion, Order

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• Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements gang up behind or beneath the ego's awareness and immerse it in a waking dream of something Other, an alien world-order similar to ancient irrationalist cultures (in transition from primitivism to civilized mythos-culture).

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  Dream, Writing, Order

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• Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.

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  Philosophy, Personality, Age

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• In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."

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  Arte, Filosofía, Ser

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• The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural maven like Falwell or Limbaugh who speaks to their manipulable pathos. The gulf between such individuals' education or intellectual competence or information and the actual issues of our times is simply too great. They were bred to be culture-media for false consciousness, junkies who crawl on their bellies across broken glass for another hit of "clarifying wisdom" from some ideological Pope.

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  Philosophy, Media, Issues

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• What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Maturity

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• Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

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  Expression, Soul, Aliens

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• People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values. The same thing applies to money that applies to time. I make a practice of watching what people do, never what they say. Whatever is important, to anyone sane, he will make a place for it; people live out their values. Values are different in this respect from "ideals," which are typically vain and effete and thus exist mostly for the sake of promoting self-delusions.

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  Time, Philosophy, Self

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