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Hightisms: Philosophical
Quips & Quotes
- "Be brilliant." (= be intellectually
honest)
- "NMP baby."
- "No likey."
- "Logic is better than sex."
- "Don't be a squirrel."
- "Sometimes you just have to wave the magic hand."
- "It often takes a great mind to make a great
mistake."
- "Still here."
- "Primary/secondary qualities... the things that keep
me up at night!"
- "Reeeealy? [with appropriate spread hand gesture]"
- "Could be Gorgon the Great Goat God... my favorite
'quad-G.'"
- "That is a bastard hard problem."
Thanks to many students for sending these to me....
Student Quotes Hight Will Hold
You to Forever
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"Lady Philosophy is my girl."
Michael van Citters 9 December 2020 - in 19th Century (Phil 304)
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"Leibniz cookies, that's not a porn
thing, is it?" Michael van Citters 16 January 2020 - in the Rationalists
course (Phil 211)
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"I peaked in Hight's class." Bjore
Samard 24 April 2019 - while discussing Kant's metaphysics.
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"It is O.K. to have a dad." Garrett
Ramsey 6 April 2018 - while talking about feminism in WCul II.
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"We are all just holes in the air."
Shelby Hanna 21 November 2017 (in Phil 305).
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Ryan Rivas, 14 Feb 2013 during Locke
on identity: “I am crying because it is just so beautiful.”
- "I think math is stupid." Kyle Gilbert, physics and
philosophy double-major, 23 February 2012.
- "My life, passionate and contradictory: the J.B.
Potter story." Said by Neil Smith, 29 March 2011.
- "That is a Hightgasm!" Andrew Mauney, 24 March 2011.
- "We are the teddy-bears of evil compared to Hight."
Avery Moncure, 18 January 2011.
- "Yay immaterialism and Christianity - all in one
day!" Brandon Wood, 17 March 2009.
- "Mo is still perceiving your room from the bushes."
Brandon Wood, 17 March 2009.
- In response to class discussion about the upshots of
consequentialism.... Taylor Neal, 9 April 2007 "I will take my
[$500] ring to the pawn shop."
- "You [Hight] average six
'awesome references' [to science fiction/fantasy characters] per class." Josh Sorey, 20 April 2007.
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