D. W. Wilson Quotes
Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!
When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.
When someone has a weight problem when they're pregnant, they will struggle before, during and after to lose weight.
Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.
To clarify, the issue isn’t that I’m too fat, it’s that I’m too phat. Can I get a WHAT-WHAT!
I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.
I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life.
We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.
'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.
Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals.
Epicurus thought of justice as an agreement to prevent people harming and being harmed.
Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise.
Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.
The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure.
I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.
I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers maybe had the key to them.
Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating.
Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.
The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.
There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place.
We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.
It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.
There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?
A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.
I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.
I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.
Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.
I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.
When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.
I can fight for something in the name of democratization, although I don't use that word a lot anymore. Come on, man. I hate democratic capitalism.
The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.
The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.