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Philosophy in the Community Archives

We do our best to capture our philosophy in the community activities in a way that will readily enable people to access, view, listen to, and participate in our “thinky wanderings,” regardless of where they reside. To access resources from our past events, click on the various categories below. Please note: Archive resources from 2015 – December 2024 activities can be accessed on our old website here.

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Interested in reading & listening to some of our posts about various topics we’ve covered over the years? For now (at least until we migrate all of our posts over to this website), you can click on the image below to access them.

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General Philosophy Resources

Below are some links to philosophy resources that you might find helpful & interesting. Click on the ‘+’ sign next to each category to view and access.

Some Quotes to Ponder

Philosophy is not about authoritative pronouncements.  It is not about one person claiming to be deeper than others or making allegedly wise assertions.  It is about leading the examined life, with humility about how little we really understand, with a commitment to arguments that are rigorous, reciprocal, and sincere, and with a willingness to listen to others as equal participants and to respond to what they offer. 
– Martha Nussbaum
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication…Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another…and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. 
– John Dewey
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of light.
– Plato
Education is not the [mere] learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
– Albert Einstein
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
– Aristotle
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
– A.A. Milne
The vitality of thought is an adventure.  Ideas won’t keep.  Something must be done about them. 
– Alfred North Whitehead
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
– Rumi
Nothing is so strong as gentleness…and nothing so gentle as real strength.
– Ralph W. Sockman
Morality is not the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
– Immanuel Kant
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
– Søren Kierkegaard
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy…can do for those who study it.
– Bertrand Russell
If you want others to be happy…practice compassion.  If you want to be happy…practice compassion. 
– Dalai Lama
Every day is a little life: Every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.   The most massive characters are seared with scars. 
– Khalil Gibran
There is a sacredness in tears.  They are not a mark of weakness, but of power…They are the messengers of overwhelming grief…and of unspeakable love.
– Washington Irving