#los

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.' ↗

— Richard D. James

#clever #effect #emotional #guitar #guitar solos

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. ↗

— William James

#hate #necessary #philosopher #real #some

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

#clash #extent #great #great extent #history

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ↗

— William James

#one thing #only #other #philosopher #philosophers

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! ↗

— William James

#call #craves #every #fact #generally

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#chords #compared #conversation #love #may

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#any #long #lose #possess #some

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#philosophy #transparency #whole

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#changing #constantly #gain #growing #life

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#decide #foolish #me #philosopher #poet