I’m actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
CORNEL WESTBeing a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
More Cornel West Quotes
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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