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 deCypher
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 Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes
#10262036 - 04/30/09 10:43 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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With figmentfragment's permission, I am incorporating her idea of saving good quotes from PS&P into a more general thread devoted to any of your favorite philosophical quotes that you've read or heard over the course of your life. Pick your wisest aphorisms or whichever arbitrary strings of words tickle your heart-strings; enlighten the rest of us with meaningful sayings that you hold dear. This includes both sayings from famous persons and pithily humorous droppings from the metaphorically 'nouveau riche' denizens of PS&P. And if possible, please include a source.
I personally find very few things more enjoyable than stumbling across a good quote, and I hope the rest of you also harbor fond affections for these linguistic beasts. Please, share those titillating truisms!
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deCypher
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 Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: deCypher]
#10262057 - 04/30/09 10:46 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Because I can't move posts from one thread over to another, I'll go ahead and re-post the few responses from figmentfragment's thread here:
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figmentfragment said:
I can't find the thread I want, but the quote is from OrgoneConclusion...simple and straight to the point, in answer to a question posed by the OP.
"No. Next topic."
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it stars saddam said:
This one certainly ranks among the top 10 in my opinion:
"if there's no such thing as evil, then what are evil spirits then? and don't turn this into a debate on the existence of evil spirits, let's just assume they exist for this argument." -Porcupine
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EternalCowabunga said:
Anything by Fivepointer
"The Lake of Fire gets hotter and hotter with every passing sin. How long shall you ignore the warnings that God has given? The law is your accuser, it has no mercy. Turn and believe the gospel. But you say, “I can’t turn”. Well then ask that you may be given the ability to turn. You say, “I can’t believe”, ask that you might be given belief. Repent and believe the gospel and you shall be saved!"
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theMERRYiguana said:
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You are an animal like an ant or a deer or a dog or a bat, Thinking obscures this basic fact.
by Icelander 
The one in Capatalistc nomad 's sig too.
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bradley said:
"Sometimes I think dogs are people too." (redgreenvines)
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it stars saddam said:
Ravus and Swami discuss the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics:
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Swami said:
Do you mean to tell me that in another universe, I am getting stoned and laid tonight instead of ditzing around on the internet?
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Ravus said:
Indeed, though the probability of you getting laid, even in quantum terms, is so small that it would be very rare in the multiverse.
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jonathanseagull said:
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shakercee said:
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2sky said:
long ago, when the great Bodhidharma reached enlightenment and realized that he already was what he sought to be; he exclaimed: what kind of joke is this! and burst into laughter.
some say that if you listen very carefully - it's very faint - you can still hear him laughing throughtout all eternity.
Similar to the cosmic background radiation!!!
That cracked me up at the time.
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lIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl said:
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Icelander said:
Icelander sure is cynical, and negative. Seems to have lost faith in the human species. How low can you go? How depressing. What a fool.
But one guy agreed with me and felt like I do.
This was said about him.
" His material grew increasingly dark in later years, to the point where he was cheerleading (with only a trace of irony) for mass suicide and ecological disaster."
And in his own words.
" I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago. I've divorced myself from it emotionally. I think the human race has squandered its gift and this country has squandered its promise. I think people in America sold out very cheaply, for sneakers and cheeseburgers. And I don't think it's fixable"
So if I have to have one person on my side I've got one of the best IMO. (George Carlin)
RIP George Carlin
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YawningAnus said:
icelander: I remember this big yellow firey ball up in the sky. It was scary because it disappeared all the time and we had to dance naked and fuck all the women to bring it back.
YawningAnus: Those were the days
not to pat myself on the back... because i didnt even realize the double meaning until two seconds after I posted it.
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deCypher
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: deCypher]
#10262065 - 04/30/09 10:48 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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And, just to kick things off, here are a few choice quotes that I like:
If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to
Then He is not omnipotent.
If He is able, but not willing
Then He is malevolent.
If He is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?
If He is neither able nor willing
Then why call Him God?
--Epicurus
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
--Mark Twain
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: deCypher]
#10262143 - 04/30/09 11:00 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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The evolution from human to divine consciousness involves healing duality and its legacy of karma and disease at the cellular and atomic levels.
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ABSENCE OF EVIDNCE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"the fact has not created in me
a sense of obligation."
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: ChiefGreenLeaf]
#10262472 - 04/30/09 12:04 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade to the void."
--E.M. Cioran
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: sterbeklang]
#10262760 - 04/30/09 12:55 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents
and making them see the light,
but rather because its opponents eventually die,
and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Max Planck
"We do not see things as they are, but as we are."
no clue
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Edited by ntrdmnsnl (04/30/09 09:29 PM)
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: ntrdmnsnl]
#10267091 - 05/01/09 02:28 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD...It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be." - Albert Hofman
"I tried making sense of it, and then I realized I should be trying to make sense as to why I was even trying to make sense... " - Unknown
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L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs
Edited by Cognitive_Shift (05/01/09 02:29 AM)
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: deCypher]
#10267426 - 05/01/09 06:33 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"People who don't drink, smoke or have sex don't really live a long time, it only seems like it." ~ Unknown
"Quotation, a servicable subsititute for wit." ~Oscar Wilde
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His mind is like a great peak of whom he is the patriarch
his ego doesn't bow to others fools all sing his praises
he can lecture on the vedas wise men clap and laugh
or discuss the Three Religions a will o' the wisp a flower in space
in his heart he feels no shame how can he avoid old age
flouting rules and breaking precepts better to know nothing at all
he boasts a law for superior men to sit and not speak and have no cares ~ Han Shan
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Grapefruit]
#10268332 - 05/01/09 10:46 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think therefore I am ~idk
Perception = reality. That is my favorite, I believe this.
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Grapefruit]
#10272263 - 05/02/09 07:10 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Grapefruit said:
"Quotation, a servicable subsititute for wit." ~Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde has some of the best quotes hands down.
"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: deCypher]
#10272381 - 05/02/09 08:05 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Swami did a cool thread on 'Extreme Moderation' many years ago. No linkee. Use the search function.
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#10272402 - 05/02/09 08:14 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: BrainChemistry]
#10272413 - 05/02/09 08:19 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Think like a man of action, Act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: xFrockx]
#10272457 - 05/02/09 08:33 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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^^ Tasty. 
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: BrainChemistry]
#10274439 - 05/02/09 04:45 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within certain limits, to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.
Hidden from one's self is a covert set of beliefs that control one's thinking, one's actions, and one's feeling.
The covert set of hidden beliefs is the limiting set of beliefs to be transcended.
- John C. Lilly
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#10281814 - 05/04/09 12:21 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to.
No American should find himself in a foreign land without a pistol.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: inlakesh1]
#10282144 - 05/04/09 02:38 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Reject common sense to make the impossible possible!" -Kamina
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Diaboleros]
#10283091 - 05/04/09 09:51 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Down below...
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free...and...It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TheSpiritForce]
#10285818 - 05/04/09 06:10 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"because blahblah." - deCypher
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Middle]
#10287163 - 05/04/09 08:58 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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The night was cold and crisp, luckily for me the broad I was with was hot and soft. Suzy had breathed into my life only a few hours ago at a bar downtown, against the backdrop of the usual losers, she had stood out like a badger in a space suit. She had eyes that had seen a thousand romantic movies but had never seen the end. Her lips were the color of open teenage veins. She was all generous legs and don't tell daddy I'm out.
What she wanted from me I didn't know. I was just a two time loser in a second hand suit. My life was becoming a raining journal novel, but at this point things didn't add up. Just me, a blond headed beaded tail, and a mish mash of metaphors and similies that were making less and less sense by the minute. My papa told the story of a world of sleepless nights, a world of what ifs, and a world of never was.
And she lay on the couch, I could tell she had been running from something. I told her she could take my bed and she was out quicker than a police in a leotard back before the yankees. I sat down in a chair that had seen so many drunken tragedies. A bottle of whisky, a glass, and a nine millimeter on the table to my left. My name is Clarence Paskebo, private Eye. It was 1939, and although I didn't yet know it, things were about to get very, very heavy.
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