confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
CORNEL WESTThere is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
More Cornel West Quotes
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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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 do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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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.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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