Leonard Lawlor quotes

“Here's a philosophical rule of thumb: always start with the negative definitions. Negative definitions are always easier to understand. So, here's a negative definition. We must not conceive difference in terms of the differences we find between things that already exist. Difference is not empirical differences.”
-- Leonard Lawlor

#Philosophical Quotes #Negative Quotes #Term Quotes

“When we follow the reversal of normal experience, we find ourselves in an unusual, nearly mad experience. Being in an almost mad experience is not something we should fear: only in such experience are we jarred out of our common sense opinions and beliefs. It opens our minds to other ideas and thought. It makes us think.”
-- Leonard Lawlor

#Thinking Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Mad Quotes

“The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling in me a desire for learning. However, the Catholic training also gave me a desire for questioning. The desire to question led me eventually to distance myself from the Catholic institution and its dogma.”
-- Leonard Lawlor

#Religious Quotes #Distance Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?”

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”

“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.”

“Dancers are the athletes of God.”

“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.”

“It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships,”

“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.”

“By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.”

“The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.”