#phil

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player. ↗

— Donald Norman

#any #apple #better #bigot #critique

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. ↗

— Novalis

#home #philosophy #properly #wish

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#child #crime #depression #drive #examples

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. ↗

— Aristotle

#literature #philosophy #art

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#giver #good #harm #humility #more

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#beings #courts #culture #ground #high

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#communities #concerned #deliberately #efforts #fell

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#life #philosophy #courage

How important has Phil Jackson been to the success of the Lakers? He's very important. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#how #important #jackson #lakers #phil

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. ↗

— Albert Pike

#almost #artisans #artists #been #genius