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

• "Leibniz cookies, that's not a porn thing, is it?" Michael van Citters 16 January 2020 - in the Rationalists course (Phil 211)

• "I peaked in Hight's class." Bjore Samard 24 April 2019 - while discussing Kant's metaphysics.

• "It is O.K. to have a dad." Garrett Ramsey 6 April 2018 - while talking about feminism in WCul II.

• "We are all just holes in the air." Shelby Hanna 21 November 2017 (in Phil 305).

• 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.