Robert Adams
Robert Adams
American philosopher best known for his thoughts on metaphysics, religion, and morality.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 September 1937
CountryUnited States of America
case
If you're going to be a challenger, you need to make a case to the voters.
wrong
For some people, there must be. I'm just the wrong guy.
animals best captivity convinced lives putting rest taking wild
I'm not convinced that taking these animals that were from the wild and putting them into captivity for the rest of their lives is in their best interest.
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If you really want to lower your risk for stroke, follow the mainstays, ... These will go a long way in reducing your risks: Quit smoking, lower your cholesterol, start exercising and keep a healthy diet.
photography art records
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.
summer children night
Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick.
land grace matter
All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.
art justice long
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.
photography silence compelling
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
believe sight years
The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.
now-and-then
Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
art philosophy writing
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.
art trying three
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?
careers trying might
I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.