Alumni-Hightisms

Hightisms

  • “Be brilliant” (= be intellectually honest)

  • “NMP baby.”

  • “No likey.”

  • “Logic is better than sex.”

  • “Sometimes you just have to wave the magic hand.”

  • “Don’t be a squirrel.”

  • “Still here.”

  • “Reeeeeally?” [with corresponding hand gesture]

  • “Could be Gorgon the Great Goat God, my super favorite quad-G.”

  • “That is a bastard hard problem.”

Many thanks… I think… to the many students who contributed these.

Select Student Quotes...

  • “Lady philosophy is my girl.” Michael van Citters 9 Dec 2020 (Phil 304)

  • “Leibniz cookies, that’s not a porn thing, is it?” Michael van Citters 16 Jan 2020 (Phil 211)

  • “I peaked in Hight’s class.” Bjore Samard 24 April 2019 (while discussing Kantian metaphysics)

  • “It is OK to have a dad.” Garrett Ramsey 6 April 2018 (while discussing feminism in Wcul 102)

  • “We are all just holes in the air.” Shelby Hanna 21 Nov 2017 (Phil 305)

  • “I am crying because it is just so beautiful” Ryan Rivas 14 Feb 2013 (discussing Locke on identity)

  • “I think math is stupid.” Kyle Gilbert, physics and philosophy double-major, 23 Feb 2012

  • “My life, passionate and contradictory, the J.B. Potter story” said by Neil Smith 29 Mar 2011

  • “That is a Hightgasm!” Andrew Mauney 24 Mar 2011

  • “We are the teddy-bears of evil compared to Hight.” Avery Moncure 18 Jan 2011

  • “Yay! Immaterialism and Christianity–all in one day!” Brandon Wood 17 Mar 2009

  • Mo is still perceiving your room from the bushes.” Brandon Wood 17 Mar 2009

  • “I will take my [$500] ring to the pawn shop.” Taylor Neal, said in response to class discussion about the upshots of consequentialism

  • “You [Hight] average six awesome references [to science fiction characters] per class.” Josh Sorey 20 April 2007