What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces some kind of edict and says you're going to have to pay protection money.
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
. . . religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.
We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.
The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence.
For centuries you have been taught that love-sponsored action arises out of the choice to be, do, and have whatever produces the highest good for another. Yet I tell you this: the highest choice is that which produces the highest good for you.
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.
The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
The problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology, a way of looking at all of life that says that everything is separate from everything else.