#inking

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country. ↗

— Leon Kass

#kind #me #opportunity #renaissance #seems

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good. ↗

— Leon Kass

#ethics #even #good #infected #logical way

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#democrats #good #light #like #republicans

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#american #communists #faithful #i #resigned

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#being #discovers #finally #happiness #happiness lies

Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch – or build a cyclotron – without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think. “But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs, or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival – so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question ‘to think or not to think.’ . . . “Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. . . Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history (pages 1012-1013). ↗

— Ayn Rand

#foce #galt #philosophy #thinking #food

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. ↗

— Alveda King

#both #error #fundamental #getting #human

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#anything #feel #feel good #good #happen

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#drinking #dry #easier #flowing #i

The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#characters #cracks #excited #friends #how