“Building an inclusive economy is another reason we’ve got to break down systemic racism, including under-investment in communities of color.”— Hillary Clinton, twitter.com
“Talking to someone with an open mind is seriously one of my favorite things because there’s never an end to what you can talk about and learn.”— Soft Grung, twitter.com
“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”— Deepak ChopraVerified account, twitter.com
“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“You’ll notice that I haven’t talked about love. Or about happiness. I’ve talked about becoming - or remaining – the person who can be happy, a lot of the time, without thinking that being happy is what it’s all about. It’s not. It’s about becoming the largest, the most inclusive, most responsive per…”— Susan Sontag, graduationwisdom.com
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”— Mary Oliver, catrickettsmusic.com
“Because if everything were explained, there would be nothing left to figure out.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“I know that men are likely to bring what are only their prejudices to the judgment of alien peoples. Avoiding that is one of the main purposes of education. But trying to prevent it by removing the authority of men's reason is to render ineffective the instrument that can correct their prejudices. T…”— Allan Bloom, amazon.com
“Pip is a kind of hero because he doesn't deny the lack of any ultimate meaning to the universe, but instead becomes a pure openness to it. To see God's foot upon the treadle of the loom and live, as Pip does, is to be deafened, to be made unfit for hearing any meaning as a human can. Indeed, after t…”— Hubert Dreyfus, amazon.com
“Newspapers are an essential element and symbol of the peculiar spirit and tendency which characterizes our civilization. There is no place to which they do not penetrate; no object which they may not serve; no description of person to whom they are not welcome.”— William Empson, amazon.com
“Most of us walk around thinking that our view is best— probably because it is the only one we really know. You'd think the fact that we all have major misunderstandings with people at times—squabbles over what was said or what was meant— would clue us in to the reality that so incredibly much is hid…”— Ed Catmull, amazon.com
“In the fall of 2004, my freshman students and I analyzed a speech of John Kerry's and found it confused, contradictory, inchoate, and weak. Six weeks later I went out and voted for John Kerry. What I was doing in class was subjecting Kerry's arguments to an academic interrogation. Do they hang toget…”— Stanley Fish, amazon.com
“By contrast, the sceptic is simply sceptical about the possibility of belief as such. Their counsel is to look at both sides of an issue and practise a suspension of judgement, or what was called an epoché, in all matters. In Philo's words, 'There is nothing firm we can say about anything.' The scep…”— Simon Critchley, amazon.com
“The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure. That's the honest position, given that you are some kind of a talking monkey, some kind of a primate, some kind of creature, on a planet, in an animal body, incarnate in a time and space. In the face of that, life without closure is the…”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“I am obligated to try to see the world through George Bush’s eyes, no matter how much I may disagree with him. That’s what empathy does— it calls us all to task, the conservative and the liberal, the powerful and the powerless, the oppressed and the oppressor. We are all shaken out of our complacenc…”— Barack Obama, amazon.com
“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.”— Steven Johnson, amazon.com
“Don’t try to see what all the colors look like when they’re added up. Instead, try to get into as many (revealing) moods as possible, as many ways of responding to the sacred as you can— and this life of serial resonances with the sacred is ultimately a kind of contentedness, happiness, even joy.”— Hubert Dreyfus, amazon.com
“Openness does not mean lack of organization, lack of principle, or lack of all resistance. For the human being, at least, it means quite the contrary: the strengthening of organization, principles, and resistance where needed, so that interaction with the outside can be strong and real. Indeed, para…”— Walter Ong, amazon.com