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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10290097 - 05/05/09 11:26 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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I have a few to bring to the thread...from those of varying infamy.
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
- Anais Nin.
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There is no truth.
There is only you and what you make the truth.
- Bright Eyes.
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What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me? Into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better, because if the scanner sees only darkly the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again.
- Phillip. K. Dick
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being 'sober' is not 'your real self'
- Noteworthy.
hm...you think there is a theme here?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: figmentfragment]
#10300566 - 05/07/09 12:55 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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A double-edged sword - "That which a man had rather were true, he more readily believes."
~ Francis Bacon
(What a sad, horrible name. He sounds like gay swine.)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10302084 - 05/07/09 10:44 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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bah bah bah bacon
...bad, i know
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10305869 - 05/07/09 11:21 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Mr. Mushrooms said:
A double-edged sword - "That which a man had rather were true, he more readily believes."
~ Francis Bacon
(What a sad, horrible name. He sounds like gay swine.)
For a while, History Channel had a show called "Six Degrees of Francis Bacon."
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Florida]
#10306064 - 05/08/09 12:23 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Florida said:
I think therefore I am ~idk
It's Rene Descartes from his book Meditations. Cogito Ergo Sum is better translated as "Consciousness therefore existence," though.
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: learningtofly]
#10306188 - 05/08/09 01:00 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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I dont think so, learningtofly.
cogito = 'i think'
egro = 'therefor'
sum = 'i am'
i think 'consciousness therefor existance' would be more like
Cogitare ergo esse
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#10307275 - 05/08/09 08:18 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Twas ever thus" - Mr. Natural.
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10308166 - 05/08/09 12:34 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'd rather die standing than live life on my knees.
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Green isn't just a color, it's a way of life!
Don't fear the OTD!
 me if you need an answer and not 'Why don't you use the search function?'
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#10311873 - 05/09/09 07:15 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
- Eric Hoffer
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.
- John Adams
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles.
- John Adams
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Francois Marie Arouet "Voltaire"
Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
- Dan Barker, author and former evangelist
They came with a Bible and their religion- stole our land, crushed our spirit... and now tell us we should be thankful to the 'Lord' for being saved.
- Chief Pontiac, American Indian
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure.
- Clarence Darrow
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us, and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Robert Darwin
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
- James Madison
Theology: The effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
It is fear that first brought Gods into the world.
- Gallus Petronius, 1st Century Roman courtier
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.
- Oscar Wilde
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Trepiodos]
#10311992 - 05/09/09 07:59 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
- King David of Israel
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10312020 - 05/09/09 08:06 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Man who drop watch in toilet have shitty time.
- Confucius
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10312500 - 05/09/09 10:37 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Mr. Mushrooms said:
The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
- King David of Israel
King David, the murderer of his best friend and adulterer, sure countered those wise quotes. 
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#10312823 - 05/09/09 12:11 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah I like to quote the bible cause it's full of " true facts".
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#10313354 - 05/09/09 02:35 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Before Abraham was, I Am"
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10313725 - 05/09/09 04:21 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;
For what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;
We must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: kibantik]
#10314031 - 05/09/09 05:54 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Here's one, the ebay result at the top of this page. "Delicious Bacon".
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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]
#10314093 - 05/09/09 06:13 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#10314515 - 05/09/09 07:58 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Once you put bacon in a salad, it's no longer a salad."
--Jim Gaffigan
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: sterbeklang]
#10314608 - 05/09/09 08:22 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Oh my God, it's full of bacon!" ~ Dave Bowman
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#10314626 - 05/09/09 08:25 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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I am really sad now that I brought Bacon up. 
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10314636 - 05/09/09 08:27 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Bullshit! You are ing as we write.
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Mr. Mushrooms
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#10314656 - 05/09/09 08:33 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said:
Bullshit! You are ing as we write.
No, I am sad. But it isn't the bacon. It's a sad honest pm I just sent to someone who used to be so dear to me.
G'night.
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sterbeklang
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10314919 - 05/09/09 09:22 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
--E.M. Cioran
Same goes for PMs.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10315649 - 05/10/09 01:01 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." - Francis Bacon
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Mr. Mushrooms
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Middle]
#10316223 - 05/10/09 07:45 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Now THAT is funny! I think it's really cool to fuck a serious thread with humorous comments.
/sarcasm
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10317049 - 05/10/09 11:49 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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I never post funny pics unless others are cracking jokes in the thread first, cracker.
I couldn't care less if you find them funny or not. I'm laughing, and that's what's important to me.
We are all here for different reasons, deal with it.
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sterbeklang
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Middle]
#10318505 - 05/10/09 05:56 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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PHILOSOPHY QUOTZE ARE SERIOUS BIZNIZZ!
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: sterbeklang]
#10331023 - 05/13/09 03:56 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, and the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you."
-Sheng-yen
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
#10335534 - 05/13/09 10:37 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Like a man awoken in an unknown flower garden, in an unknown world, for an unknown reason, at first I could do naught but inhale the intoxicating perfumes of this new life's beauty and splendor. Good god did I breathe. That's all I did. That's all I could do. Nothing more was needed."
~ Jack Haas
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Grapefruit
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10337258 - 05/14/09 10:15 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"God is love, love is blind, Ray Charles is blind, therefore, Ray Charles is God."
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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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loveistruth
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10343148 - 05/15/09 10:29 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I was at an awesome Burning Man party in Miami when I met one of the most joyful people I had ever come across. It was an older man, probably in his 50's or 60's and he had more energy and exuberance than 99% of the younger people I've met. After having a wonderfully animated conversation with him about Burning Man, spirituality, and wisdom, I asked him what his secret was. He told me that every morning, he does kundalini yoga and recites this prayer:
"I thank the one for returning my soul to me so that I may continue to learn the lessons that the universe sends to me."
I was touched by it so I saved it.
Another quote which may or may not have been in this thread already is,
"We're not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
Oh! and one more which is actually taken from 'a course in miracles':
"Nothing unreal can exist. Nothing real may be challenged. Therein lies the peace of God." \/m
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: loveistruth]
#10347810 - 05/16/09 07:52 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed."
-Terence McKenna
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: MycorRHizaL]
#10352304 - 05/17/09 07:49 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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'You are exactly as big as what you love, and exactly as small as what you allow to annoy you'
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Treefingerz
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: tosatori]
#10356615 - 05/18/09 12:25 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
--Aldous Huxley
I like this thread (minus all this Bacon funny business )
 
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Treefingerz]
#10370068 - 05/20/09 01:31 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to stop facing their souls." - Carl Jung
"We can accept god becoming man to save man, but not man becoming god to save himself."
"Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it.
Tell them something new and they will hate you for it."
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: sync]
#10390021 - 05/24/09 07:49 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs"
-annonymous
I always whip that one out when someone is preaching/bitching about the evils of drugs.
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bkadoctaj
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#10398744 - 05/25/09 08:32 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Some of the ego's strategies are extremely clever, yet they never truly solve any of its problems, simply because the ego itself is the problem."
- Eckhart Tolle
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Say what I am to say
Do what I am to do
Be who I am to be
You are owned by government.
You essentially owe them for your relationship with them.
Taxing, isnt it?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: bkadoctaj]
#10400333 - 05/26/09 03:07 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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“You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like He rushed it.” - Bill Hicks
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” - Bill Hicks
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million" - Arnold Schwarzenegger :P
“If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger :P
and one more pearl from Arnie 
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." A.Einstein
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Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Nietzsche
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ivander]
#10410011 - 05/27/09 07:23 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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“Life is just blah blah blah. You hope for blah and sometimes you find it. But mostly it’s blah. And waiting for blah. And hoping you were right about the blahs you made. And then just when you think you’ve got the whole blah-damn thing figured out, and surrounded by the ones you blah, death shows up. And blah. Blah. Blah.” - Andy from Weeds
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"Pour me a drink so I can refuse to toast" --Lorie Moore
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#10423211 - 05/29/09 11:33 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"When we are distracted, we're dragged away from what's worthwhile.
Hence distraction is ultimately a question of value.To say we're 'distracted' is to admit we're squandering our mental and physical assets;something we value less is diverting our efforts from something we value more (or should)."
Damon Young
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: deCypher]
#10424858 - 05/30/09 10:43 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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never been to this part of the forum.....
this was the first post i read.....
seriously? wtf are you guys aliens?
i was reading a bunch of these and one really hit home, and i started crying like crazy...
surprised the crap out of me how hard one quote could hit...
while i'm crying, the radio goes silent... and then i hear just a solitary female voice say "this is proof god wants you to be happy"
then i was like wtf with snot running out of my nose, bawling with tears of happiness and the next song started playing
you are some of the smartest people on the planet ime
i know you didn't write them, but you did choose them
"If triangles' had a god, he would have three sides"
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: tektonic]
#10424998 - 05/30/09 11:16 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've been reading an e-book called "Dynamic Thought". Here are some selected quotes from the chapters that I've enjoyed:
"Every successful man is a man of "faith," every successful man is a man who cultivates "hope." A successful man is always hopeful, is never a pessimist and he brings that which he hopes for, into being and reality, by the strength of his faith."
"To other creatures, life and the visible world are fixed quantities. To man, life and the world are reflexes of inward mental states. Thus, can he make life what he will; thus can he live in a world of his own creating."
"There is no one in all the world just like you, and all that you do is colored by your individuality. No one in all the world could do your work just as you do it; there are fields of conquest in front of you which no one but you can conquer. Therefore listen to the voice of inspiration."
"Unto us is given the ability to govern a power whose extent we cannot gauge, to direct an intelligence so great that it is impossible for us to grasp its full significance."
"If you affirm that you are going to do a certain act, and then do not do it, even when your faithful subconscious mind gives you the helpful impulse, then you are destroying your mental powers root and branch. You are deliberately slamming the door of progress and achievement in your own face."
"He who overcomes himself, overcomes the world."
"Life is action, and if a man ceases to work he at once begins to disintegrate and soon requires six feet of earth wherein to cover his bones."
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: deCypher]
#10464499 - 06/07/09 03:37 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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when the love of power is overcome by the power of love, this world will know peace- Jimi Hendrix
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: roomshunter]
#10465990 - 06/07/09 12:38 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"I seem to be a verb" - Buckminster Fuller
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Silversoul]
#10466205 - 06/07/09 01:33 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Good ol Buckie.
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: rebus_minus]
#10470242 - 06/08/09 10:01 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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You can lead a man to reason, but you can't make him think. - Death by Stereo
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"Pour me a drink so I can refuse to toast" --Lorie Moore
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: GhengisKhan]
#10472247 - 06/08/09 04:09 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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To stop seeing fools, break your mirror. - Rabelais
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Lakefingers]
#10472435 - 06/08/09 04:48 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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There are seven great sins in the world:
Wealth without work
Commerce without morality
Politics without principle
Knowledge without character
Science without humanity
Pleasure without conscience
Worship without sacrifice
-- Ghandi
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Silversoul]
#10475621 - 06/09/09 02:57 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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On all affairs:
Against boredom, even the gods struggle in vain.
-Nietzsche
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Lakefingers]
#10475624 - 06/09/09 02:59 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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On Grappling Ideology:
One who thinks big, must make big mistakes. -Heidegger
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Lakefingers]
#10475673 - 06/09/09 03:42 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I would expect more from Nietzsche. He could have studied boredom more closely instead of trying to rid himself of it or flee from it. That is the way to dissolve it.
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Lakefingers]
#10475676 - 06/09/09 03:45 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Lakefingers said:
On Grappling Ideology:
One who thinks big, must make big mistakes. -Heidegger
This is your favorite quote?
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: rebus_minus]
#10475849 - 06/09/09 05:33 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Preferred interpretation: the observation is on how life is dealt with. Not how Nietzsche experienced boredom. Look around you.
In this forum, Icelander's one of the few struggling with and suffering the issue at its root.
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: rebus_minus]
#10475858 - 06/09/09 05:37 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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No, more than a favorite it's a quote I wanted to share in light of the previous quotes.
The favorite quotes I come up with wouldn't make sense here - they're too connected to the tradition of academic philosophy. That is, they're for another audience.
Any quotes I post - look for the interpretations with twists and gnashing humor.
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Lakefingers]
#10479737 - 06/09/09 08:50 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Good stuff.
(All except for the Icecold comment. From what I perceive he doesn't struggle all that much.)
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: rebus_minus]
#10482853 - 06/10/09 01:26 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity" -- Kierkegaard
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent." -- Wittgenstein
and the following four by Schopenhauer
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
And finally, appearing in the work of Vesalius
"Vivitur ingenio, caetera mortis erunt" - Intelligence lives on, the rest eventually dies.
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HALFemptyJOSH
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10484307 - 06/10/09 06:03 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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The Intensity of Everything depends on how Intense you Think about it. ~Broughton
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: HALFemptyJOSH]
#10488030 - 06/11/09 11:51 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
Anything about Nietzsche
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Ranho]
#10488234 - 06/11/09 12:24 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Ranho said:
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
Anything about Nietzsche
Stephen Hawking has one like that:
"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Sventington]
#10503268 - 06/14/09 03:54 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Funny how that applies to Stephen Hawking and the public's use of his theories.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#10508922 - 06/15/09 04:16 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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"I think, Therefore I am." Quoted by René . Best philosophical quote ever.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Iron_man]
#10509783 - 06/15/09 08:36 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Why?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Iron_man]
#10509813 - 06/15/09 08:44 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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That's only if you believe in a discrete self.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: xFrockx]
#10510229 - 06/15/09 10:32 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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long quote
Yes, indeed, Prometheus may have stolen the fire, but I made off with the bomb. I severed the bonds by which I was uselessly tethered to machination. I slayed the last of a dying species by debunking plausibility, and disproving without proving.
I uprooted the Tree of Knowledge, and then burned the fruit using the limbs for a pyre.
I resonated entropy into the tangling forms, tearing all of life's hardened images from my virginal eyes, and finally I forgot the knowledge by which I had been ex-communicated from Life. And when I staggered back onto my feet and found my new footing in the ether- that was the first step I ever took forward.
It was as if I finally caught up to myself, and then ...I existed no longer. As if I descended and then rose again, resurrecting myself out of the death of what I know I was not, into what I know not; no, I do not know what it was that I was, nor what it is that I am- and this is the cornerstone of my absorption.
I did not, after all, contaminate my being in the vortex of plausibility. I did not embrace the rhetorical overtures of conception. I did not accept life's eternal distractions. My task was, and is, to continually not-know what others claim to know; to weigh the anchors of the mind.
I have no truths, only the rejection of all untruths. I did not find a conclusion, only a beginning; I disappeared into mystery, emerging out of the absence of myself.
Yea indeed, as the raging forms glistened in the ecstasy of what may, I stood again before myself.
Indeed, it is time to purge the cloaca of our fetid concepts; time to cauterize our septic meanderings; time to euthanize obsolete symbologies. After all I have seen, and all I have unseen, I now preen conception from my mind like a baboon picking squirming gnats from its own knotted fur; I gnaw upon the mind's maggots.
I simply want to erase everything and to start anew; to smash the blackboards, and throw away the chalk. Oh, life indeed is a more genuine mystery than it is a common fact.
I am no longer a coward of the mind, I will not cognitively submit to agreeable notions. I unknow the world ...defiantly.
In a genocide of cerebrations I massacre ontologies and pillage their existential remains, ruthlessly exterminating ideas, and hacking my way through the barricades of false emancipations. For in the realm of false understandings there is no heroism, only a war that never ceases, and soldiers that never die.
You see, though mine was a distorted illumination; like the blinding light of the sun, bouncing off the lightless, light-giving moon, I did still rise up in the night of our being, and shine forth despite my perpetual darkness.
And now I have returned to take mankind's whole being away with a single malicious observance.
Give me your greatest edifice, man, that I may with innocence knock it mercilessly to the ground.
I did not come to take part, but to take apart. Mine is a ruinous decomprehension. I have devoured facts, and excreted mystery; sacrificing so as to get rid of- and not with intent to gain- I did not cauterize the infected wound, I severed the entire limb; I unrecognized existence in a fanatical moment of destructive non-interpretation. I am a wild animal of mind. I am ferocious in brave ecstasy. I am savage …because I am free. The blood of meaning is on my hands.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10510563 - 06/15/09 11:44 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Care to mention what its from?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: BrainChemistry]
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Jack Haas - Roots & Wings I believe
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rexxor
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10512750 - 06/15/09 06:14 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Not really a philisophical quote but possibly the best formal insult i have ever heard (from a philosopher):
"These endarkeners may think themselves partisans of endurance, but they are not. They are perforce neutral, because they lack the conceptual resources to understand what is at issue."
David Lewis 'On the Plurality of Worlds'
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Iron_man]
#10515974 - 06/16/09 08:42 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Iron_man said:
"I think, Therefore I am." Quoted by Ren� . Best philosophical quote ever.
I think, therefore there are thoughts.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: bocuma]
#10517249 - 06/16/09 01:10 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
bocuma said:
Quote:
Iron_man said:
"I think, Therefore I am." Quoted by René. Best philosophical quote ever.
I think, therefore there are thoughts.
Thinking, therefore thinking.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deimya]
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RationalEgo
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: xFrockx]
#10518636 - 06/16/09 04:52 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason." Ayn Rand
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#10519123 - 06/16/09 06:21 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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lol
Ayn Rand
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Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: daytripper23]
#10519165 - 06/16/09 06:28 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
daytripper23 said:
lol
Ayn Rand
"The Empire Never Ended." Horselover Fat
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Silversoul
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: daytripper23]
#10519191 - 06/16/09 06:32 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
daytripper23 said:
lol
Ayn Rand
My thoughts exactly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#10519422 - 06/16/09 07:05 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hey.
Cult leaders can be philosophers too.
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RationalEgo
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Sventington]
#10519499 - 06/16/09 07:22 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Sventington said:
Hey.
Cult leaders can be philosophers too.
Haven't heard that one before.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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justamonkey
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#10550019 - 06/21/09 08:00 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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“Do or do not... there is no try.” -Yoda
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[quote]We don't need anyone to teach us sorcery, because there is really nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is incalculable power at our fingertips. What a strange paradox! Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it. [/quote]-Carlos Casteneda
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: daytripper23]
#10558067 - 06/23/09 07:06 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Don't dis Ayn Rand. The people you like are no better."
-sterbeklang
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#10564765 - 06/24/09 12:04 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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I love My Mistakes and I don't want to quit to the delicious freedom of being wrong. Charles Chaplin
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Sventington
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Romi]
#10568169 - 06/24/09 11:10 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Whatever will be will be. The future's not our's to see.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Sventington]
#10569265 - 06/25/09 04:17 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Que Sirhan Sirhan.
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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail." - A. N. Whitehead
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RationalEgo
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#10574771 - 06/26/09 12:28 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.--Lucille Ball
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.--Aristotle
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.--Cicero
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#10574809 - 06/26/09 12:40 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.--Thomas Sowell
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RationalEgo
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#10574822 - 06/26/09 12:42 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.--Robert A. Heinlein
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RationalEgo
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#10574850 - 06/26/09 12:47 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.--Donald Trump
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Silversoul
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#10576225 - 06/26/09 10:23 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
RationalEgo said:
Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.--Donald Trump
What a loser.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#10576609 - 06/26/09 11:46 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Theres nothing you can do that can't be done" -John Lennon
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"Time is the thread through the needle of life" -Annonymous
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Psycryptic]
#10585132 - 06/28/09 05:37 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
A warrior lives by acting not by thinking about acting.
-Carlos Castaneda
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Maybe there is no Heaven. Maybe this is all pure gibberish — a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow — to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...
--HST
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10586007 - 06/28/09 11:10 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Its the publicity that killed the skunk - Abraham Lincoln
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10586031 - 06/28/09 11:14 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow." Luigi Pirandello
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#10586064 - 06/28/09 11:20 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche (this qoute speaks volumes while your dosed)
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#10586188 - 06/28/09 11:45 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Lakefingers said:
Funny how that applies to Stephen Hawking and the public's use of his theories.
Yeah, most scientists do not disagree with Hawking's ramblings about the "elusive" & "mysterious" (dare I say "ninja qualified"?) dark matter. Perhaps they do not want to appear like bad guys telling a cripple that he is just wrong...
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr.Al]
#10586506 - 06/28/09 12:50 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice
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LucidSid
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10589021 - 06/28/09 08:54 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Yes!" -Tony Robinson
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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Silversoul
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#10589136 - 06/28/09 09:09 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development." - Ken Wilber
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#10590999 - 06/29/09 05:08 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.--Homer
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#10591869 - 06/29/09 10:24 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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LucidSid
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#10591893 - 06/29/09 10:28 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10592065 - 06/29/09 11:06 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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“I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.” - Maher
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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LucidSid
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#10592148 - 06/29/09 11:24 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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HALFemptyJOSH
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#10608685 - 07/02/09 08:00 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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THE INTENSITY OF EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON HOW INTENSE YOU THINK ABOUT IT![gradient:#D4B881,#][/gradient]
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#10609313 - 07/02/09 10:41 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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LucidSid
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10621881 - 07/04/09 04:24 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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"The creative mind plays with the objects it loves" Carl Jung
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
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LucidSid
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#10624606 - 07/05/09 11:37 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hahah. That shits crazy.
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Silversoul
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
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Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#10662266 - 07/12/09 08:58 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Moreso: you're an ideal rat.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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Read a fair bit of works of philosophers as well as of few occultists, but truly it needs an artist to format a simple sentence that, in the most effective manner, taps to the subconsciousness.
Considering that:
"A man is the less likely to become great the more he is dominated by reason: few can achieve greatness - and none in art - if they are not dominated by illusion.", by Mr. Doctor of Devil Doll.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
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A sample from one of the documents I've slowly been working at.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to percieve with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. - Albert Einstein...
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
I have argued that every human being is born with an innate drive to experience altered states of consciousness periodically -- in particular to learn how to get away from ordinary ego-centered consciousness. I have also explained my intuition that this drive is a most important factor in our evolution, both as individuals and as a species. No ordinary experiences are vital to us because they are expressions of our unconscious minds, and the integration of conscious and unconscious experience is the key to life, health, and spiritual development, and fullest use of our nervous systems. - Andrew Weil, M.D.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell
Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow, whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die. - Tao Te Ching...
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. - The Beatles
"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
"Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim" [Be patient and tough; one day this
pain will be useful to you]
"The greatest weakness of mankind is that we have to believe in something no matter how illogical that belief may be." "Nations have been raised and destoryed on belief alone...... Food for thought." :|
"When a man nails his foot to the floor he tends to walk in circles." :-P
Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift ~
that's why it's called the present!
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. "
Hemingway
'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind . . .
- J. Krishnamurti
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
" When you hit rock bottom, start digging. " --Aleister Crowley
"Look up at me, and you will see a god. Look down on me, and you will see a fool. Look straight at me, and you will see yourself." - Charles Manson
Your religion is not the garb you wear outwardly, but the garment of light you weave around your heart. By outward garb I don't mean your physical raiment only, but rather the thoughts and beliefs in which you enclose yourself. They are not you. Discover who you are, behind those outer trappings, and you will discover who Jesus was, and Buddha, and Krishna. For the masters come to earth for the purpose of holding up to every man a reflection of his deeper, eternal Self."
Paramhansa Yogananda
Grey's Anatomy, "So instead of spending your life drawing lines, how about spending it crossing them. Because the view from outside... is wonderful."
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.
Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.
Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.
By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner knowledge which can render our lives boundlessly satisfying and meaningful. While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind. - Tarthang Tulku...
There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being. - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei...
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Blooming with sociopaths
Once upon a time the idea occurred to start controlling people. The idea of god was created, which thus led to duality. Now, in order to control people you have to give them a reason for control. Convince them that they are not simply animals with developed brains, and tell them they cannot fuck except to make babies. Now all the fun is taken out of fucking, and you're in control of one of the most baser instincts. Well, if you can only fuck to make babies you cannot fuck with someone of your own gender, or even more than one person at a time. So it was declared that having sex with someone of your own gender was evil, and people who did this were given a specific title. No matter that before this there was no gay or straight, people just fucked other people that they liked. Being humans and having big brains, we can develop emotional attachments to people and find closeness and emotional fulfillment through sex. Now we can no longer explore our interpersonal relationships in that way. Now a division has been created in sexuality that is not naturally meant to exist for us. So what happened is that the powers that be started making up outlandish stories and stereotypes about people who have sex with other people of the same gender... And eventually those people started buying into it. So now we have prancing ****** queens and intolerant daughter-raping rednecks. The problem with all this is none of it is real. It's like people who get in really heated arguments about Star Wars. It's not fucking real and you're buying into an obvious like. Just like how Catholics invented the concept of Satan Worship to demonize their enemies, even though there were no such people... Some people eventually decided to act out against the church and become Satan Worshipers. It would be just like if a group of people go together and really declared themselves to be Jedi. Wait, I forgot, that actually did happen. The concept of dual sexualities is a myth. People are naturally geared to have sex with people they like and are attracted to. That doesn't mean everyone will be "bisexual" it means that the concepts don't exist, and that gays are fucking annoying by wanting to define themselves strictly by what they like to do with their genitals, just like straight people are fucking annoying by thinking they're "normal".
know I have a point. What bothers me is that it blind-sided you like it did. It's just common sense, but nobody wants to break people down and examine us as fairly basic, if gifted, animals. They always want to pile shit on and add new neurosis and syndromes that don't even exist. It's like "Schizoid Tendencies"; it's a blanket term for "we don't know". People are simple and basic, but our whole society has been borne out of convincing ourselves that were these complicated, flawed, immature creatures that wouldn't exist but for lawyers, psychologists, religion, the death penalty, etc... Granted, there are a lot of people who wouldn't survive without those things because they've invested themselves and their personalities so deeply in those institutions it would be like taking a patient off of life support. The worst part is it's like a perfectly alert and healthy person not surviving off life support, it's a choice.
We are at an evolutionary cross roads right now, we've evolved slightly past ourselves. We're at a point now where we need to make some societal changes, and a lot of personal ones, that we're not willing to make yet. The problem is we've fucked things up so bad that if we don't take this evolutionary step, the wave of our previous ignorance and greed threatens to swallow us whole. People do stand around a lot and sermonize about the way the world ought to be, but they don't do anything about it. "Oh, gas prices are too high and we're at war because we're dependant on Arab oil... But I won't go buy a Prius or other hybrid car because they're a little more money and I like the social validation I get from driving my Suburban everywhere." There was a point in this country when we went out and had violent, bloody, revolutions. We don't anymore. Fuck, we barely even say anything contrary we're so lazy. Granted, this country was founded by WASPS for WASPS, and the rest of American society benefited by trickle-down. It doesn't matter what used to happen, it matters now what does happen. We're more worried about the government making sure our kids don't even watch a dirty movie or play a violent video game, but we've stopped raising and educating our children. Breastfeeding is actually starting to decline, that's how much mothers don't want to deal with their children. Pop 'em out so the relatives and friends think more of me for being a parent, then stick the kid in a seperate room and only pay attention to it when it does something that makes my life difficult or uncomfortable. That's how serial killers get raises, and why we're blooming with sociopaths.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Spiralout112]
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"How can an infinitesimal part of the universe understand the whole? We are drops of water trying to understand the sea." -- Will Durant
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
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Quote:
Silversoul said:
"How can an infinitesimal part of the universe understand the whole? We are drops of water trying to understand the sea." -- Will Durant
if you See you are the sea then your no longer a drop trying to understand the sea...
"be a light unto yourself"
Buddha
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Dephect
New Life
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: The Chronic]
#10742665 - 07/26/09 10:10 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Detachment is a state, it is not a totalisation of achieved indifferences. - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei
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Mr.Al
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Dephect]
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Huh,
Kind of like a really good actor that still knows he's an actor? Sometimes if you play the role long enough you can become it.... It gets confusing and sometimes I find myself referring to myself in the third person and get confused as to "which one is which"....
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Ethnobotanical
....think ill make some tea
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr.Al]
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If you want happiness for an hour...take a nap
If you want happiness for a day...go fishing
If you want happiness for a month...get married
If you want happiness for a year...inherit a fortune
If you want happiness for a lifetime...help others
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origuami
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Ethnobotanical]
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wow i can spend ridiculous amounts of time reading quotes.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
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"There's no proof that there's no proof that anything you say is true or false." My conclusion from the observation that not one formal system can escape itself.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#10950799 - 08/27/09 07:09 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time"
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives"
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DannyGlick
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ennos]
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"I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect." - George Carlin
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tektonic
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DannyGlick]
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When words express truth, they are not refined.
When words are refined, they do not express truth.
One who is proficient, does not depend on verbal disputation.
One who depends on verbal disputation, is not proficient.
One who knows is not encyclopedic.
One who is encyclopedic, does not know.
The wise does not accumulate.
The more he works for other people, the more he gains.
The more he shares with other people, the more he recieves.
The way followed by heaven, is to do good, and not to harm.
The way followed by the wise is to work, and not claim credit.
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Daily Tzolkin
"If triangles' had a God, he would have 3 sides."
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sunflower
We're here....
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: tektonic]
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Get er done.
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Aleph1
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
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"shit happens"--anonymous
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EyelessVagabond
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Aleph1]
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
-William Blake
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction
And is made up of contradiction
-William Blake
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shivas.wisdom
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"The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death." -Kerouac
"I think basically the Grateful Dead is not for cranking out rock and roll, it's not for going out and doing concerts or any of that stuff. I think it's to get high. To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. And I think every human being should be a conscious tool of the universe." -Garcia
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adzam
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: shivas.wisdom]
#11102181 - 09/21/09 05:50 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
-Jack Kerouac in On the Road
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“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion” -Jack Kerouac
the only thing we have to fear is the middle
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TiN
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#11108205 - 09/22/09 05:36 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
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SayWhat
Native Shaman
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TiN]
#11111630 - 09/23/09 09:00 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in 'another' or 'better' life. - Nietzsche
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Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
Sending me free spores is welcomed and encouraged.
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chause
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#11115296 - 09/23/09 07:34 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." ~from unknown~
idk where it's from I just found it on someones sig that posted heres my favorite of what I made up
"Life it's just more complex than people make of it, its explaination can't be summed up and yet some don't see the obvious simplicites and truth." ~me~
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BrainChemistry
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: chause]
#11148003 - 09/28/09 11:58 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country." — Aldous Huxley
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." — P.J. O'Rourke
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." — Frank Outlaw
"WE [MOI], AS A GROUP, DO NOT RECOMMEND…VERILY, WE REPUDIATE ANY ANIMAL / MINERAL / VEGETABLE / SYNTHETIC SUBSTANCE, VEHICLE and/or PROCEDURE WHICH MIGHT TEND TO REDUCE THE BODY, MIND OR SPIRIT OF ANY INDIVIDUAL (any true individual) TO A STATE OF SUB-AWARNESS OR INSENSITIVITY … that is to say WE ARE HERE TO TURN YOU LOOSE NOT TURN YOU ON." — Frank Zappa
^^
Stumbled across these gems. 
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: BrainChemistry]
#11172913 - 10/02/09 11:46 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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My nuts tingle when i read a meaningful quote.
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" - Steve Jobs
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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mozhual
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#11179299 - 10/04/09 08:11 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"Nature is like a sculptor constantly improving upon her work, but to do so she chisels away at living flesh." H.K. Bloom
"Is God willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent...
Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent...
Is he both able, and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god." Epicurus 33 AD
There are a bunch I'll try and add over then next week or so when i have time, mainly after I've read which ones are already in here, so that is all for now.
EDIT: Just a warning, I use a very broad definition of philosophy.
Here we go:
"What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of “humility.” This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism." -Einstein
"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition." José Bergamín
"Madness... is the exception in individuals, but the rule in groups" - Nietzsche
"It's getting uncommonly easy to kill people in large numbers, and the first thing a principle does - if it really is a principle - is to kill somebody" Dorothy L. Sayers
"We do not see, or we forgot, that the birds which are idly singing around us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life." Charles Darwin
"If you occasionally feel you are of several minds on one subject, you are probably right. In reality you have several brains. And those brains don't always agree." Howard K. Bloom
In reference to the !Kung tribe of the Kalahari Desert: "These simple people had no violence, they said. Anthropology had discovered the key to human harmony, abolish the modern world. Later studies revealed that !Kung men solve the problem of adultery by murder. As a result the homicide rate among the tribe is higher than that of NYC" H.K. Bloom
10/7/09 Some more:
"Howard Bloom has his own vision of evolution and human nature that many scientific authorities would dispute. He is a heretic among former heretics.The bone of contention is the organismic nature of human society" David Sloan Wilson
"Progress is possible only when people believe in the possibilities of growth and change. Races or tribes die out not just when they are conquered or suppressed but when they accept their defeated condition, become despairing, and lose their excitement about the future." Norman Cousins
"Whether a nation be today mighty or rich or not depends not on the abundance of security of its power or riches, but principally on whether its neighbors posses more or less of it." Philip Von Hornigk c. 1690
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"Nature is like a sculptor constantly improving upon her work, but to do so she chisels away at living flesh." H.K. Bloom
"Is God willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent...
Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent...
Is he both able, and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god." Epicurus c. 300 BCE
"When I brought up the fact that 'No drug is good or bad, they're all just A drug, what someone does with them determines the postive or negative outcome. Look at medicine, those are drugs' Reponse was that 'well medicine solves problems' well so does LSD." -Learningtofly
Edited by mozhual (10/07/09 06:43 AM)
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Silversoul
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: mozhual]
#11197855 - 10/06/09 10:36 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"The spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze. And matter shall reveal the spirit's face." -- Sri Aurobindo
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#11229491 - 10/11/09 08:01 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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people are plastic to the molding force of the society they are born...from my ethical philosophy class not my favorite but i feel it applies
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Mr. Middle
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Dutch-Master2890]
#11235540 - 10/12/09 07:11 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough." - Moby Dick
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Xeny
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: cesarmd7]
#11244388 - 10/14/09 05:58 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody, motherfuckers
Revolutionary - Immortal technique
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Not everything what was, is beyond
If i could show you, you would never leave it
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Booby
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Romi]
#11316403 - 10/25/09 01:26 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"I survived shitcreek without a paddle."
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EternalCowabunga
Small sassy black girl
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Booby]
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The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates
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Oh, yeah, what are you gonna do? Release the
dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their
mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you? -
Homer Simpson
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"We are just the universe experiencing its self."
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L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs
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NastyDHL
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“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
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Dephect
New Life
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: NastyDHL]
#11356675 - 10/31/09 09:17 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Having found no self that is not other, the seeker must find that there is no other that is not self, so that in the absence of both other and self, there may be known the perfect peace, of the presence of absolute absence."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Dephect]
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"You may not realize it at the time, but a kick in the teeth might be the best thing in the world for you." - Walt Disney
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yogabunny
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Cyanesense]
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I love the sufi poets, hafiz & rumi....sorry if any of these are repeats:
"The Happy Virus"
I caught the happy virus last night
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me.
"An Astronomical Question"
What
Would
Happen if God leaned down
And gave you a full wet
Kiss?
Hafiz
Doesn't mind answering astronomical questions
Like that:
You would surely start
Reciting all day, inebriated,
Rogue-poems
Like
This.
(both by hafiz)
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: yogabunny]
#11369012 - 11/02/09 11:48 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Twas ever thus" -Mr. Natural
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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penelope_tree
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11420656 - 11/09/09 04:42 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"And the rest of our lives will the moments accrue, when the shape of their goneness will flair up anew." - Joanna Newsom, This Side of The Blue
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simc
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: penelope_tree]
#11424154 - 11/10/09 02:23 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Lead me Zeus, lead me destiny
To the goals you have assigned.
Should I resist, in a moment of perversity,
I know I will need to follow nonetheless." - Cleanthes prayer to Zeus
"The greatest danger comes from excessive good fortune." - Seneca
"To study philosophy is to learn to die." - Montaigne
"Have you ever seen a man that thinks he is wise? You have more to hope from a mad man than from him" - Proverbs (supposedly, not sure where)
"He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How." - Nietzsche
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: simc]
#11424571 - 11/10/09 06:41 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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 Welcome to the shroomery. I hope to see you posting in this forum. (our little mad house)
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11424682 - 11/10/09 07:15 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Everyone complains about their memory,
none about their understanding.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Once again:
Against boredom, even the gods struggle in vain.
- Nietzsche
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11424708 - 11/10/09 07:23 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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More great quotes.
I can tell much about the person by the quotes they are attracted to.
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When it gives you potatoes, make vodka.
--Russian proverb
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
--Philip K. Dick
One day I had an extraordinarily profound experience, one more "real" than I had ever had. I experienced the fact that some day I was going to die, And just before I died, two things would happen: One, I would regret my entire life; Two, I would want to live my life over again, and then I would die.
--Hubert Selby Jr.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
--Hegel
Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved, is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
--Epicurus
In my experience, some of the most successful relationships are based on lies and deceit...since that's where they end up anyway, it's a logical place to start.
--Yuri Orlov
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
--Hunter S. Thompson
Few men think, yet all have opinions.
--Berkeley
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish.
--Nietzsche
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. --William James, reflecting on Hegel after inhaling N2O.
Count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.
--Sophocles
One should not be too right if one wants to have those who laugh on one's side; a grain of wrong actually belongs to good taste.
--Nietzsche
The surest poison is time.
--Emerson
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
--Shakespeare
A wise fish never goes anywhere without a porpoise.
--Lewis Caroll
One may be asked whether there is not a conflict between this development of the Will and Ethics.
The answer is Yes.
--Aleister Crowley
Birth is sorrow; life is sorrow; sorrowful are old age, disease, and death; but resurrection is the greatest misery of all.
--Buddha
It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.
--Nietzsche
Thou owest God a death.
--William Shakespeare
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
--Bertrand Russell
Why couldn't the world that concerns us--be a fiction? And if somebody asked, "but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?"--couldn't one answer simply: why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?
--Nietzsche
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the dark conscious.
--Carl Jung
Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by man; and cursed is the man whom the lion consumes, and lion becomes man.
--Jesus Christ
The ruler of the world is Whirlwind, that hath unseated Zeus.
--Aristophanes
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
--Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
--H.L. Mencken
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
--Giordano Bruno
All things were together. Then mind came and arranged them.
--Anaxagoras
In reality we know nothing - for truth is in the depths.
--Democritus
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
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
--Socrates
I am a part of that force that would always desire the evil, yet always work the good.
--Goethe
Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
--Arthur Conan Doyle
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
--William Blake
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
--Aristotle
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
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Brilliant. Some of those are truly funny and amazing. Thanks for finding those.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11428689 - 11/10/09 07:15 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped to create . . . a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody—or at least some force—is tending the Light at the end of the tunnel. This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic . . . a blind faith in some higher and wiser 'authority.' The Pope, The General, The Prime Minister . . . all the way up to 'God.'" -- Hunter Thompson
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11428878 - 11/10/09 07:45 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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F. Forrester Church:
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
Felix Adler:
Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . .
She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration.
She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn.
She faces death, and prophesies life.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11431220 - 11/11/09 03:31 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple--teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep--wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, hi is wise--follow him!-- Lady Burton
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11431602 - 11/11/09 06:43 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise--follow him!-
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11431969 - 11/11/09 08:34 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.--Sir Francis Bacon
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.--Ayn Rand
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Quote:
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More great quotes.
I can tell much about the person by the quotes they are attracted to.
...and I chose quotes for the audience. 
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.--Martin Luther King, Jr
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11432544 - 11/11/09 10:35 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Not sure if these are doubles.
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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
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." -- Epictetus
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"The highest purpose of intellectual culture is to give a man perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self." - Novalis
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Tropism]
#11432554 - 11/11/09 10:36 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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And just for you, PS&P..
THE TRUTH IS FIVE BUT MEN HAVE ONLY ONE NAME FOR IT. -Patamunzo Lingananda
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Tropism]
#11432612 - 11/11/09 10:44 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"I think we should potty-train the world so we don't have to keep changing it." -- Swami Beyondananda
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#11432668 - 11/11/09 10:53 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." - Joseph Campbell
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#11432683 - 11/11/09 10:56 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"The end of society is as unthinkable as it is inevitable."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Tropism]
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Quote:
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Not sure if these are doubles.
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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
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." -- Epictetus
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"The highest purpose of intellectual culture is to give a man perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self." - Novalis
Love these boys.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
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Quote:
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"I think we should potty-train the world so we don't have to keep changing it." -- Swami Beyondananda
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Tropism]
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." -- Epictetus
I think this is a noble ideal, although achieving both caution and indifference (Epictetus 2.1) I've found not easy to put into practice. It is much easier to be either indifferent to fate yet unmotivated or motivated because you are worried about your fate. To be indifferent to fate yet motivated I guess requires much Stoic training.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: simc]
#11439146 - 11/12/09 07:15 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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This quote was the inspiration for Elbert Ellis in creating Rational Emotive Therapy. You might want to check that out for some helpful tips.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11439508 - 11/12/09 08:56 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.--Aldous Huxley
Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.--Ayn Rand
If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!-- Ayn Rand
Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing. --Aesop
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.--Charles Darwin
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.--Penn Jillette
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.--H.L. Mencken
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11439547 - 11/12/09 09:07 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Do not forget: A man needs little to lead a happy life." ~Marcus Aurelius
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
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Easily said as the ruler of the Roman Empire.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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"No, you're not thinking. You're just being rational." -- Neils Bohr
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.--Charles Darwin
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.--H.L. Mencken
Especially like these.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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Lakefingers said:
Easily said as the ruler of the Roman Empire.
Good point. I hadn't considered the context too deeply.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
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Quote:
Lion said:
Quote:
Lakefingers said:
Easily said as the ruler of the Roman Empire.
Good point. I hadn't considered the context too deeply.
Remember some form of that quote was said by every slave master in history.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11439723 - 11/12/09 09:46 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Dare to be naïve." -- Buckminster Fuller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#11439803 - 11/12/09 10:02 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him."
I thought this saying was Aesop's, but who knows
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
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"Every great idea is obvious, not every obvious idea is great."-Some random kid on acid on national geographic
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: HardTrippin]
#11445929 - 11/13/09 01:16 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.--Cicero
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.--Carl Sagan
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.--Henry Ford
In science it often happens that scientists say, \'You know that\'s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,\' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn\'t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.-- 1987 CSICOP keynote address
It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.--Ayn Rand
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call free will is your mind`s freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character. --Ayn Rand
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11446229 - 11/13/09 04:32 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gotta love the Rand.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11452042 - 11/14/09 02:55 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Free will is real in the fact that we make our own decisions, but it is not real in the fact that our decisions are based on previous experiences. -- Garren Hahn
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right. 
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ImaginingEmotions]
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Doesn't that just beg the age-old question (even though both ends cancel each other out):
Do we make our decisions? That is, who are the "we" that are making the decisions and what does this mean with modern science's and sociology's input?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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Loving of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has beside no meaning....Those who preach the doctrine of loving their enemies are in general the greatest prosecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches.--Thomas Paine
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
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The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.--Ayn Rand
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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What is it to be spiritual? To recognize the finer harmonies of conduct -- to live to the ideal -- to separate the incidental, the evanescent, from the perpetual -- to be enchanted with the perfect melody of truth -- open to the influences of the artistic, the beautiful, the heroic.... There is nothing spiritual in the worship of the unknown and unknowable, in the self-denial of a slave at the command of a master whom he fears. Fastings, prayings, mutilations, kneelings, and mortification are either the result of, or result in, insanity. --Robert Green Ingersoll
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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It's been attributed to Wittgenstein and others:
When philosophers meet they should greet each other by saying
T a k e y o u r t i m e.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.--Robert Green Ingersoll
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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Christopher Marlow was poet more than a philosopher. Truth is however often more present in literature than in philosophy:
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim Morrison
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison
I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
Jim Morrison
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Sigmund Freud
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Sigmund Freud
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Sigmund Freud
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Icelander said:
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Sigmund Freud
I'd like to know where Freud said that
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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An individual must be an individual. To desire for someone to be like you is to trivialize your own individuality and to deny them theirs. To desire to be like someone else is a mockery of the effort they put in to making themselves the way they are. Either way, we must all be individuals.--Matt Finnigan
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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Lakefingers said:
Quote:
Icelander said:
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Sigmund Freud
I'd like to know where Freud said that
He was sitting on the shitter at the time.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11484391 - 11/19/09 08:52 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Worrying about his mother dying before he would.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11484568 - 11/19/09 09:28 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Momma's boy. If he was still alive we could go beat him up.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11484596 - 11/19/09 09:31 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you could get anywhere near him, what with that reeking, festering cancer that stank up the mansions he lived in and scared his pets and family out of the room.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11484692 - 11/19/09 09:49 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Above, mozhual, quoted Nietzsche's famous: "Madness... is the exception in individuals, but the rule in groups".
With that in mind I give you Alice in Wonderland, page 47:
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. 'What sort of people live about here?'
'In THAT direct,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, 'lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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I'm getting the feeling you didn't like him.
He was a mess. Maybe that's why he found out so much. He kick started something though and he may have been right about a lot of things.
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Freud? I think he's great and I'd like to study him more closely at some point.
Just 'cause he's dead and would be old if he were alive doesn't mean I can't make silly jokes about him.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11484886 - 11/19/09 10:27 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Can I quote you on that?
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11484896 - 11/19/09 10:29 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yes, but you can't hold it against me.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RED727]
#11487573 - 11/19/09 05:05 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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the man of means by no means
king of the road
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11526833 - 11/25/09 01:57 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Science is God explaining God to God through a human nervous system.--Chopra
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ImaginingEmotions]
#11527004 - 11/25/09 02:28 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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I Have Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call Myself
A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
A Buddhist, a Jew.
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It's the same thing.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cobzig]
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Quote:
Cobzig said:
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
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Lion said:
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ImaginingEmotions]
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We might still have to off them for their own good however.
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Schopenhauer
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And speaking of change.
"Let us put our trust in the eternal spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unsearchable and eternally creative source of all life"
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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Lakefingers said:
Above, mozhual, quoted Nietzsche's famous: "Madness... is the exception in individuals, but the rule in groups".
With that in mind I give you Alice in Wonderland, page 47:
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. 'What sort of people live about here?'
'In THAT direct,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, 'lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
I think its about time I bought Alice in Wonderland
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I don't believe in cops, bosses, or politicians. Some call that anarchism. I call it having a fucking heart that beats.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ImaginingEmotions]
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ImaginingEmotions said:
Science is God explaining God to God through a human nervous system.--Chopra
I like it.
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Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence — for he has the perfected eye to see. There is no separateness. Thus, just as the way of social participation may lead in the end to a realization of the All in the individual, so that of exile brings the hero to the Self in all.
joseph campbell
For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
jesus
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: burgatory]
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"the fallen glory of my ego is laid at the feet of all our purposes, and my purpose is to keep on dreaming"
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in general, i'm not sure if i'm indecisive or not.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11596712 - 12/06/09 01:52 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" ~Dobzhansky
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
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But ask not Bodies doom'd to die,
To what abode they go;
Since Knowledge is but sorrows spy,
It is not safe to know.
- Sir William D'Avenant
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
- Kant
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: 1200 Micrograms]
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1200 Micrograms said:
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
- Kant
This has to be the ONLY line of Kant's that I agree with. Are you sure of the validity of this quote? I can hardly believe that Kant wrote that.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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I suppose you're joking. Or are you seriously saying you've read everything by Kant and only agree with that line.
Just to confirm: yes, Kant wrote that. It's tied in with his categorical imperative.
Edited by Lakefingers (12/07/09 08:57 AM)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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RationalEgo said:
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1200 Micrograms said:
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
- Kant
This has to be the ONLY line of Kant's that I agree with. Are you sure of the validity of this quote? I can hardly believe that Kant wrote that.
I'm pretty sure. Perhaps the translation from German to English may have faults in it. Look it up.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: 1200 Micrograms]
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1200 Micrograms said:
I'm pretty sure. Perhaps the translation from German to English may have faults in it. Look it up.
Look, Kant did not say it in those words. It's a paraphrase, but it gets the point across.
What he said was formulated several times in his work. One formulation was:
„Handle so, dass du die Menschheit sowohl in deiner Person, als in der Person eines jeden anderen jederzeit zugleich als Zweck, niemals bloß als Mittel brauchst.“
Rough translation: "Act thusly, that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end, never merely as a means to an end."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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Es geht hier um's handeln. That's his main point he wants to bring across; sowohl in dir, als individuum, als auch in der allgemeinen Menschheit.
Right?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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Lakefingers said:
I suppose you're joking. Or are you seriously saying you've read everything by Kant and only agree with that line.
Did I say that I had read ALL of his nonsense? I have read much f his supposed 'Critique of Pure Reason", which was total nonsense and drivel of the pseudo-intellectual variety.
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Just to confirm: yes, Kant wrote that. It's tied in with his categorical imperative.
Well, it really is the only sentence of his that I have read and agreed with, but it is out of context, so that doesn't say much. It does not lend any credence to the rest of his disgusting philosophy.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: 1200 Micrograms]
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"Es geht hier um's handeln."
Yes, I think it's an imperative for practical application. It's directed at you yourself and towards others.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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RationalEgo said:
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Lakefingers said:
I suppose you're joking. Or are you seriously saying you've read everything by Kant and only agree with that line.
Did I say that I had read ALL of his nonsense? I have read much f his supposed 'Critique of Pure Reason", which was total nonsense and drivel of the pseudo-intellectual variety.
Have you sat down and spent any time studying Kant? Would you care to explain this in another thread, why Kant is pseudo-intellectual drivel? I'll start it - it's on me.
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Well, it really is the only sentence of his that I have read and agreed with, but it is out of context, so that doesn't say much. It does not lend any credence to the rest of his disgusting philosophy.
Disgusting too. It's amazing that you think his philosophy was nonsense, yet at the same time you made enough sense of it to find it disgusting (which I'm suppose you've picked up from opinions adjacent to or directly taken from Objectivism). I'm sorry, RationalEgo, my bullshit detector just won't turn off when I read what you've written here.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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It is nonsense becuase it is a 'disgusting' attempt at an assault on reason.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
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I just read that one a few days ago.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Thats right, im super good at picking out good qoutes. Im the best qoute picker in this kingdom!! What!?!?! Bring it! ..... LOL.
Yea he was probably buzzin on some cocaine... Cocain is the shit and WAS super popular in this era so idk... makes sense to me.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#11615098 - 12/09/09 05:51 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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here's a deep one.
Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive.
~Bee Gees
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
#11615236 - 12/09/09 06:55 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"So oft it chances in particular men / That through some vicious mole of nature in them, / By the o'ergrowth of some complexion / Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, / Or by some habit grown too much; that these men - / Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, / Their virtues else - be they as pure as grace, / Shall in the general censure take corruption / From that particular fault."- Big daddy S.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ~Francis Bacon
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: verbal240]
#11630918 - 12/11/09 02:22 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”
santiz
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11631044 - 12/11/09 02:43 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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You don't know Kant that well considering you didn't even recognize his categorical imperative.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: xFrockx]
#11632273 - 12/11/09 06:22 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills." - Schopenhauer
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Freedom]
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Ah, another Schopenhauer to follow this up with. This is by the way not one of my favorite quotes as in I identify with its message, but I identify with twisting these very thoughts around in many directions:
“For evil is precisely that which is positive, that which makes itself palpable; and good…is that which is negative, the mere abolition of a desire and extinction of a pain.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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“Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find ''tomorrow'' on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, ''If I had my life to live over again. ''Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
Og Mandino
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
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“Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
~ Mark Twain
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
#11638568 - 12/12/09 06:02 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
#11638630 - 12/12/09 06:12 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Cracka_X said:
�Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.�
~ Mark Twain
Yeppp.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
#11639006 - 12/12/09 07:30 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Cracka_X said:
�Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.�
~ Mark Twain
In a similar vein:
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything. ~Oscar Wilde
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
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The old believe everything? That makes no sense.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11641602 - 12/13/09 08:27 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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What he meant to write was: the old can make no sense of anything. 
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11641644 - 12/13/09 08:39 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Icelander said:
The old believe everything? That makes no sense.
'Believe everything', as in have strong, deeply-ingrained beliefs about 'how things are' and 'how things should be'. Not that I think that's universally true by a long shot.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
#11641766 - 12/13/09 09:13 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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oh, cause the only think I believe strongly is that nobody knows wtf their talkin about.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11641784 - 12/13/09 09:17 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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You're not old yet.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
#11641835 - 12/13/09 09:30 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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My back hurt when I got up this morning. 
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11643411 - 12/13/09 02:13 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. - Henry Miller
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#11643953 - 12/13/09 03:52 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Return of the Ragpicker or The Greatest Salesman in the World? Either way, I love Og Mandino, thanks for reminding me of him!
"You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
#11669259 - 12/17/09 02:30 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them
daaaamn.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Quote:
Icelander said:
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson
And the 100 million that don't work with used cars contemplate suicide. Hunter S. Thompson went all the way.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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learningtofly said:
We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them
daaaamn.
Off topic, but this article might interest you:
American fascism: by political definition the US is now fascist, not a constitutional republic by Carl Herman, Examiner.com, Published: December 14, 2009.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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thanks, i'll take a look.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped." -F. Perls
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: xFrockx]
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Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks - Dr. Dre
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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How could I forget the philosophical wisdom inherent in gangsta rap?!
fuck y'all, all of y'all
if y'all don't like me, blow me!
--Dr. Dre
nobody likes me, but that's okay
cuz I don't like y'all anyway
--50 Cent
you don't got to go to church to get to know your god
--Jedi Mind Tricks
I was in love once... then I learned from that
--Jedi Mind Tricks
worst case scenario is there never ever was a higher power
so in the midst of chaos now
the only real savior is fire power
--Tech N9ne
I have ammo, what about you?
--Tech N9ne
they told him any motherfucking coward can sell drugs
any bitch nigga with a gun can bust slugs
any nigga with a red shirt can front like a blood
even Puffy smoked a motherfucker up in the club
but only a real thug can stab someone till they die
standing in front of them, staring straight into their eyes
--Immortal Technique
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
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Life ain't nothin but bitches and money - Ice Cube.
Move bitch, get out the way. - Ludacris ... bitch is a metaphor for obstacles in his life and people who are bringing him down.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#11681682 - 12/19/09 02:56 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Not all philosophical, but...
"The crucial test of ethical values is whether they apply to strangers, and those afar, not just in our midst."
Bernard Crick Essays on Citizenship, 2000
"Just as the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to persuade it to rise, but shines anyway and is universally loved, so you should not wait for applause and praise in order to do good; but be a voluntary benefactor and you will be beloved like the sun."
Epictetus Handbook, 1st Century CE
"Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked – as I am surprisingly often – why I bother to get up in the mornings. To put it the other way round, isn’t it sad to go to your grave without wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?"
~Richard Dawkins 1998
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
- Marcus Aurelius
Had we discovered, simply, that each atom tends to some one point, we should still have fallen on a discovery which, in itself, would have sufficed to overwhelm the mind; but what is it we are actually caled on to comprehend? That each atom attracts, sympathises with the most delicate movements of every other atom in the vast expance of the universe, each and all at the same time, forever, according to a determinate law of which the complexity, even considered by itself, is utterly beyond the grasp of the imagination. If I propose to ascertain the influence of one mote in a sunbeam on it's neighbouring mote, I cannot accomplish my task without first counting and weighing all the atoms in the universe and defining the precise positions of all at one particular moment. If I venture to displace, by even a billionth of an inch, the speck of dust lying on the point of my finger, what is the character of the act I have comitted? I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of the multitudionous myriad of majestic stars that roll and glow in the presence of their Creator.
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Eureka"
1848
"Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe the more intensely the reflection dwells on them:the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
~Immanuel Kant
(also carved on his gravestone)
I particularly appreciate the Edgar Allan Poe one-this man had no scientific training whatsoever-one day he just turned his mind to conceptualising reality and came up with a stunning little book. Anyone into physics should give it a read. Reminds me of Thomas Paine, who one day just started thinking about the rights and liberties of man, and wrote some seminal works.
Some people just perceive the truth.
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To all you good gents, I say
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Ego Questio]
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I have EAPs heart in my freezer. Whenever I thaw it, it starts to beat ever more.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.-- Charles Darwin
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11690546 - 12/21/09 03:13 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."
Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.
Hafiz
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
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"I remember when the future was a promise.
Now it's like a threat". - unknown
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Quote:
Every bit of knowledge that becomes power has death as its central force. Death lends the ultimate touch, and whatever is touched by death indeed becomes power
-- Carlos Castaneda
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Maybe there is no Heaven. Maybe this is all pure gibberish — a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow — to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...
--HST
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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"To use your head, you have to go out of your mind."
-Timothy Leary
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
#11712261 - 12/24/09 01:09 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Every bit of knowledge that becomes power has death as its central force. Death lends the ultimate touch, and whatever is touched by death indeed becomes power
-- Carlos Castaneda
That quote was great.
This has got to be one of my all time favorite quotes:
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Investigate the various repugnant aspects of the body, beginning with the fact that the body is a conglomeration of all sorts of things. In other words, it's a burial ground, a national cemetery, filled with the corpses of cattle, pigs, ducks, chickens, sour, sweet, greasy, salty, gathered and aged in the stomach, filtered and distilled into blood, pus, decomposing and putrid, oozing throughout the body and coming out its various openings: this body, which all of us in the human race care for without ceasing — bathing it, scrubbing it, masking its smell — and even then its filth keeps displaying itself as ear wax, eye secretions, nasal drip, tooth tartar, skin-scruff and sweat, always oozing out, filthy in every way. What it comes from is filthy, where it stays is filthy (i.e., in a cemetery of fresh corpses, or even worse — we've probably buried hundreds of different kinds of corpses within ourselves).
----- From Frames of Reference by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Freedom]
#11713050 - 12/24/09 03:22 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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perfect.
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#11735131 - 12/28/09 11:08 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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The nature of rain is the same but it grows thorns in the marshes and flowers in the meadows ---- The book "Awerness"
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: blackdust]
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"Men who believe in nothing write learned tomes about gods who never existed. ... If you are proficient at it you finally get a seat in the academy where you slowly degenerate into a full-fledged chimpanzee."
Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11735405 - 12/29/09 12:41 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yea Henry!
Makes me want to read some of him again. It's been years.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11735429 - 12/29/09 12:52 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Men who believe in nothing write sagacious posts about gods who never existed. ... If you are proficient at it you finally get a seat in as a regular at the Shroomery where you slowly degenerate into a full-fledged chimpanzee."
By the way, that was from The Colossus of Maroussi.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11735469 - 12/29/09 01:08 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think I've read everything he wrote. I used to be a prolific reader. Now I'm mostly over it. It's all the same old shit now. Nothing new under the sun and all that.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11735488 - 12/29/09 01:14 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Somebody keep my balance
I think I'm falling off
Into a state of regression
The expiration date
Rapidly coming up
It's leaving me behind to rank
Always move forward
Going "straight" will get you nowhere
There is no progress
Evolution killed it all
I found my place in nowhere
I'm taking one step sideways
Leading with my crutch
Got a fucked up equilibrium
Count down from 9 to 5
Hooray! We're gonna die!
Blessed into our extinction -Green Day
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11735522 - 12/29/09 01:21 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Pretty much. I think there are odd texts out there I haven't read, but they are very rare and hard to find. Even Miller is crap in ways, but it has life in it, unlike most literature. Most literature is very formulaic and follows a reordering and manipulation of set rules of plot and narrative structure. American novels, detective novels, horror, etc are exceptionally typical...
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I think what makes you typical is that you have lost nearly all your spiritedness. I dislike how that happens to most of the elderly.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11736397 - 12/29/09 08:52 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"A Smith & Wesson beats four aces." -- Canada Bill Jones
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#11736405 - 12/29/09 08:54 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl."
--James Crumley
I didn't reform, I lost my nerve. I still think it's sensible to want money and if you want money it has to be sensible to go where they have it and make them give you some.
--Al Nussbaum, bank robber.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#11736596 - 12/29/09 09:48 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I didn't reform, I lost my nerve.
This is almost always the case. For everything.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#11738404 - 12/29/09 03:41 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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deCypher said:
"Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl."
--James Crumley
That's great
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#11742152 - 12/30/09 10:47 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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deCypher said:
"Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl."
--James Crumley
I didn't reform, I lost my nerve. I still think it's sensible to want money and if you want money it has to be sensible to go where they have it and make them give you some.
--Al Nussbaum, bank robber.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: origuami]
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MY LIFE IS MY MESSAGE ~ Budda
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: blackdust]
#11770046 - 01/05/10 12:32 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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In jest:
"A witty saying proves nothing"
- Voltaire
In serious (there aren't any here from Churchill!):
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- Ian L. Fleming (1908 - 1964)
“I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is a waste of time."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: sisyphus]
#11774599 - 01/06/10 12:45 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I can't deny that he has some great quotations, but it's too bad Churchill hadn't been a little more willing to give the Indian people back their country. Racist colonialism seems to suck all the wind out of his heroic political career.
"Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking." - Lao Tsu
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
#11776380 - 01/06/10 11:43 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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You forget that without Britain, India would still be a backward, caste system driven hellhole.
Oh and BTW, Ghandi, the famous 'liberator' of India, was an outright racist.
Sir Winston was NOT!
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11776423 - 01/06/10 11:53 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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RationalEgo said:
You forget that without Britain, India would still be a backward, caste system driven hellhole.
Oh and BTW, Ghandi, the famous 'liberator' of India, was an outright racist.
Sir Winston was NOT!
Gandhi was certainly a racist while he lived in South Africa, but in later years I have heard he considered all of humanity as his brethren, including Africans and other groups he might have despised as a younger man. Also, I don't think Britain's policies did much to change the caste system; Gandhi, on the other hand, went a long way toward bridging the rift between the higher and lower castes...although needless to say caste remains to this day a huge aspect of Indian society.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11776598 - 01/06/10 12:23 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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RationalEgo said:
You forget that without Britain, India would still be a backward, caste system driven hellhole.
Oh and BTW, Ghandi, the famous 'liberator' of India, was an outright racist.
Sir Winston was NOT!
While Ghandi was a racist how is that relevant to his accomplishments?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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A few more favourites, even if they are from Americans ;-)
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
- George S. Patton
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908 - 1964)
“I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is a waste of time."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11778362 - 01/06/10 04:33 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
Winston Churchill, 1937
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: cesarmd7]
#11780627 - 01/06/10 09:42 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
#11781071 - 01/06/10 11:41 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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learningtofly said:
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RationalEgo said:
You forget that without Britain, India would still be a backward, caste system driven hellhole.
Oh and BTW, Ghandi, the famous 'liberator' of India, was an outright racist.
Sir Winston was NOT!
While Ghandi was a racist how is that relevant to his accomplishments?
Its not but its certainly relevant in the context that Ghandi is basically worshipped in India while no attention is paid to his MANY faults.
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yelyarb said:
"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
Winston Churchill, 1937
OK, touché, there are certainly strong racist implications of that quote.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
#11781236 - 01/07/10 12:29 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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yelyarb said:
"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
Winston Churchill, 1937
fuck... That man was a leader?
Yeah! we wont last long.
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We can recognize a lot of the ideas he had as a politician for the value that they still have, particularly on behalf of prisoners.
"Following the 1910 General Election Churchill became Home Secretary. Churchill introduced several reforms to the prison system, including the provision of lecturers and concerts for prisoners and the setting up of special after-care associations to help convicts after they had served their sentence."
His racist attitudes may just be the product of a system so long bent on colonialism and a notion of superiority. As rational as we can be, our environment seems to impact us necessarily, albeit sometimes the result is terrible.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
#11790558 - 01/08/10 02:52 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
--Martin Heidegger
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#11790996 - 01/08/10 04:00 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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God is dead
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The concept of a multiplicity of possible or actual universes is a very ancient one. In recent years, however, advances in physics and cosmology have given the "multiverse" idea
a plausible scientific basis.
"There is no religion higher than Truth."
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"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?" -- Mark Twain
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
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"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?" -- Mark Twain
 never thought of that.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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Which text does that Twain quote come from?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11794482 - 01/09/10 04:58 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."
Morris West
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11794486 - 01/09/10 05:00 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Lakefingers said:
Which text does that Twain quote come from?
"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
Mark Twain
"There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce."
Mark Twain
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11795069 - 01/09/10 08:52 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Lakefingers said:
Which text does that Twain quote come from?
I believe it's from his autobiography.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
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I want to read that. He's a very interesting figure. I relish that no one knows whether to place him in with popular literature or fine literature.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man\'s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man\'s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.-- Ayn Rand
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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RationalEgo said:
I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man\'s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man\'s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.-- Ayn Rand
One could argue that one's own desires could also imprison the self. Addiction would the paramount example of this.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Freedom]
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Investigate the various repugnant aspects of the body, beginning with the fact that the body is a conglomeration of all sorts of things. In other words, it's a burial ground, a national cemetery, filled with the corpses of cattle, pigs, ducks, chickens, sour, sweet, greasy, salty, gathered and aged in the stomach, filtered and distilled into blood, pus, decomposing and putrid, oozing throughout the body and coming out its various openings: this body, which all of us in the human race care for without ceasing — bathing it, scrubbing it, masking its smell — and even then its filth keeps displaying itself as ear wax, eye secretions, nasal drip, tooth tartar, skin-scruff and sweat, always oozing out, filthy in every way. What it comes from is filthy, where it stays is filthy (i.e., in a cemetery of fresh corpses, or even worse — we've probably buried hundreds of different kinds of corpses within ourselves).
----- From Frames of Reference by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
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I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man\'s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man\'s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.-- Ayn Rand
One could argue that one's own desires could also imprison the self. Addiction would the paramount example of this.
What the hell does that have to do with freedom? You should be free to kill yourself if you want, its your choice.
Ask yourself this question: Is heroin addiction in ones own rational long term self-interest?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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No, but this does not invalidate my point that my freedom can be taken away by my own choices and desires and NOT solely by other men.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
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No, but this does not invalidate my point that my freedom can be taken away by my own choices and desires and NOT solely by other men.
You have no point because you are dropping the context (as per usual). Freedom pertains to life and ones choices. You are free to make bad decisions as much as you are free to make good ones. If you wish to kill yourself, you are free to do so.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11796929 - 01/09/10 02:29 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yes, and the initial bad decisions that I freely make can infringe on my freedom to make good choices in the future. The meth addict who has been chemically enslaved by the drug for the past ten years still has a technically 'free' choice to quit using and become sober, but realistically speaking their willpower has been so affected by their previous choices that it will not be a truly free decision after all.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
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RationalEgo said:
I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.-- Ayn Rand
One could argue that one's own desires could also imprison the self. Addiction would the paramount example of this.
What the hell does that have to do with freedom? You should be free to kill yourself if you want, its your choice.
Ask yourself this question: Is heroin addiction in ones own rational long term self-interest?
Out of curiosity, what are some examples of choices that are in one's rational long term self-interest, assuming as a base the choice to hold an occupation that affords one the basic means of survival?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lion]
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Oh and the Twain quote I just used as code for those in the know that I'm punching in GG with my job:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover"
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“I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is a waste of time."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#11807168 - 01/11/10 09:40 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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When everyone thinks alike - nobody thinks much - Dee Dickinson
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: blackdust]
#11813508 - 01/12/10 07:26 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Behind every fortune lies a crime. -Tolstoy
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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does that include fortune cookies
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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Too bad there isn't a fortune behind every crime.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11820203 - 01/13/10 04:35 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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There isn't that kind of money around.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Perhaps it depends at what economic and social level you're willing to commit your crime.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11827631 - 01/14/10 09:30 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Common sense" tells us that the Earth is flat.
(don't know where I read it)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: oversyn]
#11827736 - 01/14/10 09:56 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Regarding the "is the cup half full / half empty question" I've found a nice answer:
"The cup has the double capacity of the actual requirement"
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: oversyn]
#11828401 - 01/14/10 12:23 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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My buddy always used to say "There is no cup."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: oversyn]
#11846237 - 01/17/10 09:12 AM (2 years, 28 days ago) |
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"Common sense" tells us that the Earth is flat.
(don't know where I read it)
Here's one for ya...
Common sense ain't so common anymore.
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For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
#11847004 - 01/17/10 11:54 AM (2 years, 28 days ago) |
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Here's one for ya...
Common sense ain't so common anymore.
Damn right..!
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: cesarmd7] 1
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People say that what we're all seeking is a
meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're
really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an
experience of being alive, so that our life
experiences on the purely physical plane will
have resonances within our own innermost
being and reality, so we can actually feel the
rapture of being alive
This came out of the woodstock book Back to the Garden
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TrippyHippie74]
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"the truth is we are not meant to do, we are meant to BE." - justbeatree
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: syberia]
#11859531 - 01/19/10 12:09 PM (2 years, 26 days ago) |
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Just read the blog syberia, thanks for the heads up, that was awesome.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TrippyHippie74]
#11863700 - 01/19/10 11:57 PM (2 years, 25 days ago) |
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TrippyHippie74 said:
People say that what we're all seeking is a
meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're
really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an
experience of being alive, so that our life
experiences on the purely physical plane will
have resonances within our own innermost
being and reality, so we can actually feel the
rapture of being alive
This came out of the woodstock book Back to the Garden
I've heard the bold part before somewhere...\
aahaa, its actually a Joseph Campbell quote
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/10442
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Freedom]
#11864577 - 01/20/10 08:14 AM (2 years, 25 days ago) |
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Yep, I just looked in my book and that's who said it.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TrippyHippie74]
#11868579 - 01/20/10 07:07 PM (2 years, 25 days ago) |
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When I read that bold part it really affected me nearly ten years ago and changed the course of some of my thoughts.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Freedom]
#11870661 - 01/21/10 05:55 AM (2 years, 24 days ago) |
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Yea that quote has really affected me as well, but just in the past year.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TrippyHippie74]
#11870687 - 01/21/10 06:01 AM (2 years, 24 days ago) |
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"the sound of the rain needs no interpretation" - from the book AWARENESS
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdust]
#11871232 - 01/21/10 08:53 AM (2 years, 24 days ago) |
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"it's not the actual thing that brings joy, it's the relaxation of not having to look for it anymore"
-from a friend
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
#11874144 - 01/21/10 04:34 PM (2 years, 24 days ago) |
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I found this pretty interesting....
There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers. - Gregory Zilboorg.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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I found this pretty interesting....
There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers. - Gregory Zilboorg.
whats the big metaphysical answer people are afraid of?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdust]
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Hell is for real.  Along with the boogyman.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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Icelander said:
Hell is for real. Along with the boogyman.
yeah. Hell is very real. Except its now b/c their is only a eternal now. Heaven is real too. Except its now /c their is only a eternal now.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdust]
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You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#11896680 - 01/25/10 05:34 AM (2 years, 20 days ago) |
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Bravo!
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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"Being multi-dimensional doesn't make you immortal."-Tommy Rogers
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<Shins McGee> The God machine is hungry for individualism and ripe brains.
The skull farmers do their rain dance and pray the machine falls to sleep.
She holds me close and whispers wet "there are cannibals among us."
Mad in love with dry dead boys in the backs of abandoned cars.
Smoking the bones of children plotting the murder of love.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Pyschonaut23TN]
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“Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.”
"The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation."
-Terence McKenna-- Cheers to chillin; Psi in the sky since 2000 ... Rest in Peace
"A road is named by those who walk upon it" - Chuang Tzu
"Fetch me a man who has forgotten words so that I may have a word with him!"
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Locoinsaino]
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Amen! Terrence McKenna opened my eyes with his book, Food of the Gods, back in 2002. An amazing contributor to the collective consciousness, and an intelligent model for psilonauts everywhere.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
#11907927 - 01/26/10 07:20 PM (2 years, 19 days ago) |
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
This to me describes LSD.
Not even lying, the first time I took LSD i was talking with a friend about how we take things for granted, but on acid you could find infinite pleasure in a grain of sand.... now i come across this poem and yeah.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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That's right on. The main benefit of the psychedelic experience as I see it.
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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I like that one
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdust]
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you fuck your women like you fuck the world - david data
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdust]
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All from Theodore Roosevelt:
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: devmush]
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People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see. - Nietzsche.
Icelander this reminds me of your "Don't Do It" thread.
And then another of his
There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to imaginary things.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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― Henry Miller
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
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"The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth: and this without a particle of regard to the results to which the exercise of that power may lead, even though it should conduct the pupil to opinions diametrically opposite to those of his teachers. We say this, not because we think opinions unimportant, but because of the immense importance which we attach to them; for in proportion to the degree of intellectual power and love of truth which we succeed in creating, is the certainty that (whatever may happen in any one particular instance) in the aggregate of instances true opinions will be the result; and intellectual power and practical love of truth are alike impossible where the reasoner is shown his conclusions, and informed beforehand that he is expected to arrive at them. " -- John Stuart Mill
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
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a rare breed.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TrippyHippie74]
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TrippyHippie74 said:
People say that what we're all seeking is a
meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're
really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an
experience of being alive, so that our life
experiences on the purely physical plane will
have resonances within our own innermost
being and reality, so we can actually feel the
rapture of being alive
This came out of the woodstock book Back to the Garden
Joseph Campbell
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For most of my life I lived a delusion, yes
Material gain has caused me confusion, but
Slowly in time I learned that my place is to:
TELL ALL THAT I MEET THE GLORY THAT GOD IS
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: circastes] 1
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"Robots need love too."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
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"The secret of existence is to not fear. Never fear what will become of you,
depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."
- Buddha
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't;
If you'd like to win, but you think you can't,
Its almost a cinch you won't;
If you think you'll lose, you've lost;
For out in the world you'll find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind.
--Selected text from "Key to Yourself'
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If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12116073 - 02/28/10 06:49 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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"Fuck bitches, get money"
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: noticeofeviction]
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Theres always free cheddar in a mousetrap
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdust]
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Ooh nice.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdust]
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is that like a reach around
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
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The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TrippyHippie74]
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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be"
-May Sarton
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
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To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer ... As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being. . . . If you have not resolved to kill yourself, there is no different between you and the others, you belong to the faction of the living, all--no matter what their convictions--great believers. Do you deign to breathe? You are approaching sainthood, you deserve canonization...
- Emil Cioran
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12139893 - 03/04/10 01:13 AM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
- Annie Dillard
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blackdust
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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have to kiss a lot of frogs before one turns into a prince
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer ... As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being. . . . If you have not resolved to kill yourself, there is no different between you and the others, you belong to the faction of the living, all--no matter what their convictions--great believers. Do you deign to breathe? You are approaching sainthood, you deserve canonization...
- Emil Cioran
Holy fucking wow. Thanks for that one!
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
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I can't remember or find any notes about who said this. Here goes:
Quote:
The great course of things is catastrophal in essence. But nature makes pauses during which we build up our confidence.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12147033 - 03/05/10 05:28 AM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Lakefingers said:
I can't remember or find any notes about who said this. Here goes:
Quote:
The great course of things is catastrophal in essence. But nature makes pauses during which we build up our confidence.
I realize this everytime i trip really hard.
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If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
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blackdust
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdust]
#12158583 - 03/07/10 10:35 AM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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If I knew how to choose then I wouldn't have too
Alan Watts
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdust]
#12160754 - 03/07/10 06:07 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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When what you see and what you believe are two different things it can really start to wear you down.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12168727 - 03/09/10 02:44 AM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
--Zardoz
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
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Quote:
deCypher said:
The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
--Zardoz
i never watched the movie myslef, read up on it a bit and even downloaded...
maybe i should actually get around to watching it
how you rate it from 1-10, decypher?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: origuami]
#12171699 - 03/09/10 02:31 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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I dunno about a numerical rating but it's certainly worth watching at least once for the hilariousness of Sean Connery and bad old cult sci fi.
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origuami
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
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Quote:
deCypher said:
I dunno about a numerical rating but it's certainly worth watching at least once for the hilariousness of Sean Connery and bad old cult sci fi.
haha
i have to get around to watching this and soylent green
and fantastic planet.
wooooweee
maybe i'll host an older sci-fi marathon one of these nights.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: origuami]
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there was a very cool one i saw in someone's sig a long time ago about how man should not think of himself as anything less than a god, i'd really like to know the whole quote if anyone knows it!
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"and then one day you find 10 years have got behind you no one told you when to run...you missed the starting gun"
"for long you live and high you fly, but only if you ride the tide, balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave"
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: sheldogg5]
#12205169 - 03/15/10 07:54 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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For will any common sense observer agree that I was rightly punished as a boy for playing ball--just because this hindered me from learning more quickly those lessons by means of which, as a man, I could play at more shameful games.
-Augustine
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"So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death."
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hairybear
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Dangeros65]
#12238730 - 03/20/10 07:00 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Changed my life when i first watched it lol
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lorddavidone
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: hairybear]
#12254853 - 03/23/10 10:35 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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aldous huxley
But the need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short. Such a drug must be potent in minute doses and synthesizable. If it does not possess these qualities, its production, like that of wine, beer, spirits and tobacco will interfere with the raising of indispensable food and fibers. It must be less toxic than opium or cocaine, less likely to produce undesirable social consequences than alcohol or the barbiturates, less inimical to heart and lungs than the tars and nicotine of cigarettes. And, on the positive side, it should produce changes in consciousness more interesting, more intrinsically valuable than mere sedation or dreaminess, delusions of omnipotence or release from inhibition. To most people, mescalin is almost completely innocuous. Unlike alcohol, it does not drive the taker into the kind of uninhibited action which results in brawls, crimes of violence and traffic accidents. A man under the influence of mescalin quietly minds his own business. Moreover, the business he minds is an experience of the most enlightening kind, which does not have to be paid for (and this is surely important) by a compensatory hangover. Of the long-range consequences of regular mescalin taking we know very little. The Indians who consume peyote buttons do not seem to be physically or morally degraded by the habit. However, the available evidence is still scarce and sketchy.* Although obviously superior to cocaine, opium, alcohol and tobacco, mescalin is not yet the ideal drug. Along with the happily transfigured majority of mescalin takers there is a minority that finds in the drug only hell or purgatory. Moreover, for a drug that is to be used, like alcohol, for general consumption, its effects last for an inconveniently long time. But chemistry and physiology are capable nowadays of practically anything. If the psychologists and sociologists will define the ideal, the neurologists and pharmacologists can be relied upon to discover the means whereby that ideal can be realized or at least (for perhaps this kind of ideal can never, in the very nature of things, be fully realized) more nearly approached than in the wine-bibbing past, the whisky- drinking, marijuana-smoking and barbiturate-swallowing present.
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Cyanesense
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: lorddavidone]
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"Familiarity breeds contempt" - I think I heard that on malcom in the middle....
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cyanesense]
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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination" ~ Oscar Wilde
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TimmiT]
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12291451 - 03/29/10 07:39 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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i yam what i yam
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Simms
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: GrimaceTheFrog]
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"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness." Emo Philops
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Simms]
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"Courage is always authentic." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
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Exception: courage is defined by the ruling power. Like the US calling all the nations on their side "courageous".
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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Lakefingers said:
courage is defined by the ruling power.
Always?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher] 1
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Quote:
Mr. Cypher said:
Quote:
Lakefingers said:
courage is defined by the ruling power.
Always?
It was minimal.
Drawn out: In one case courage is defined by the ruling power. E.g....
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mellow vibez
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12347518 - 04/07/10 08:33 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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No one to claim Creator yet the masses are perplexed
Cause by life we're so impressed, we all wish we had a next - zion i
Loss of thought, is loss of self
My familiarity makes you scared to see
The beauty in front of your eyes
You're thinkin' merrily
Everything isn't a predictable occurrence
If you've experienced everything except a purpose
Then you've missed everything that was meant to be caught
Life sessions aren't lessons that can be simply taught - cunninlynguists
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: mellow vibez]
#12348120 - 04/07/10 10:46 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Progress is not always forwards, sometimes it is just a step in a unkown direction.
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ImaginingEmotions
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Conzept]
#12348893 - 04/07/10 12:45 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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"Great people talk about Ideas,
Average people talk about things,
Small people talk about other people."
not sure one the author...
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
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deCypher
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ImaginingEmotions]
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I like to talk dirty ideas about the things I'd like to do to other people.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher] 1
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"Non-rational creatures do not look before or after, but live in the animal eternity of a perpetual present; instinct is their animal grace and constant inspiration; and they are never tempted to live otherwise than in accord with their own animal dharma, or immanent law. Thanks to his reasoning powers and to the instrument of reason, language, man (in his merely human condition) lives nostalgically, apprehensively, and hopefully in the past and future as well as in the present; has no instincts to tell him what to do; must rely on personal cleverness, rather than on inspiration from the divine Nature of Things; finds himself in a condition of chronic civil war between passion and prudence and, on a higher level of awareness and ethical sensibility, between egotism and dawning spirituality.
But this "wearisome condition of humanity" is the indispensable prerequisite of enlightenment and deliverance. Man must live in time in order to be able to advance into eternity, no longer on the animal, but on the spiritual level; he must be conscious of himself as a separate ego in order to be able consciously to transcend separate self-hood; he must do battle with the lower self in order that he may become identified with that high Self within him, which is akin to the divine Not-Self; and finally he must make use of his cleverness in order to pass beyond cleverness to the intellectual vision of Truth, the immediate, unitive knowledge of the divine Ground.
Reason and its works "are not and cannot be a proximate means of union with God." The proximate means is "intellect," in the scholastic sense of the word, or spirit. In the last analysis the use and purpose of reason is to create the internal and external conditions favourable to its own transfiguration by and into spirit. It is the lamp by which it finds the way to go beyond itself." -Aldous Huxley
I can't believe how wise and perceptive Huxley was. I absolutely agree with what he has to say.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: jw2234]
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"My days are always great. It's people around me that fuck it up."
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mellow vibez
mind expanding
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Patience] 1
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Until Philosophers are kings...cities will never have rest from their troubles - Plato
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no one to claim creator yet the masses are perplexed, cause by life were so impressed, we all wish we had a next.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: mellow vibez]
#12381831 - 04/12/10 09:10 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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meaning never
-me
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#12381842 - 04/12/10 09:12 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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"I can say that, I'm black"
in hindsight i really wish that was my senior quote instead of "I have nothing to declare except my genius"
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly] 2
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: offgridsid]
#12386610 - 04/13/10 04:03 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Word.
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#12386619 - 04/13/10 04:04 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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fuck carrots
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12386622 - 04/13/10 04:04 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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that was really philosophical d00d
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher] 1
#12386656 - 04/13/10 04:09 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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I kNo [iNsErT CoMmA} BrOsEpH
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12386666 - 04/13/10 04:10 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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-plato
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher] 2
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12386723 - 04/13/10 04:18 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Whiteydr
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#12401112 - 04/15/10 11:03 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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my sig
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Whiteydr]
#12405285 - 04/16/10 04:45 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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When one is not thinking clearly
objectively
rationally
be aware of that
and change it
break it.
That is transformation.
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ME OWl AND MY EYES GO GREEN
Dark as night I can't be seen!
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deCypher
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Enpo]
#12405294 - 04/16/10 04:47 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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change is inevitable
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floydisgod
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#12405322 - 04/16/10 04:53 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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"if not now, when?"
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Fearlessly the idiot face the crowd
Smiling
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deCypher
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: floydisgod]
#12405324 - 04/16/10 04:53 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Exactly!
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origuami
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: floydisgod]
#12407193 - 04/16/10 11:48 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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floydisgod said:
"if not now, when?"
later on, when its warmer.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: origuami]
#12426954 - 04/20/10 01:04 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Sigmund Freud wrote: "There are countless civilized people who would shrink from murder or incest but who do not deny themselves the satisfaction of their avarice, their aggressive urges or their sexual lusts, and who do not hesitate to injure other people by lies, fraud and calumny, so long as they can remain unpunished for it; and this, no doubt, has always been so through the ages of civilization”.
However, I offer the following.
The Illuminati (Illumined Naughty), Satan’s Sin Agog & The Heretical English Language
EDIT: This is a thread for quotes, not five pages of text about the Illuminati. If you're interested in it make a thread or use a search engine to find the text with the title above. -Lakefingers
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Michael1960]
#12431305 - 04/21/10 10:05 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. - Friedrich Hölderlin.
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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic Note to those inquiries he would put. - Emerson
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#12431337 - 04/21/10 10:11 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Mr. Cypher said:
change is inevitable
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deCypher
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12431366 - 04/21/10 10:16 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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We use words to get free from words until we reach the pure wordless Essence.
-Lama Govinda
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher] 1
#12431402 - 04/21/10 10:24 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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If the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
-unkown
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If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
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Quote:
Mr. Cypher said:
We use words to get free from words until we reach the pure wordless Essence.
-Lama Govinda
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ImaginingEmotions said:
If the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
-unkown
... This just reminds me, the world sucks.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12449959 - 04/24/10 02:15 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and be real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors. - Rainer Maria Rilke
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: schadenfroh]
#12450146 - 04/24/10 03:04 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise- Alden Nowlan
"Be the change you want to see in the world"- Mahatma Gandhi
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history" - Mahatma Gandhi
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Instead of giving money to fund colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. - Will Rogers
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Criss2fur]
#12466035 - 04/27/10 01:26 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions
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The '60s was really stupid ... It was a type of merchandising, Americans had this hideous weakness, they had this desire to be OK, fun guys and gals, and they haven't come to terms with the reality of the situation: we were not created equal. Some people can do carpentry, some people can do mathematics, some people are brain surgeons and some people are winos and that's the way it is, and we're not all the same. This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid. The '60s was merchandised to the public at large... My pet theory about the '60s is that there is a sinister plot behind it... The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12466047 - 04/27/10 01:27 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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you are today where your thoughts have brought you. you are tomorrow where your thoughts will take you.
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Larry aint shit without Curly and Moe.
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: NoHum]
#12466255 - 04/27/10 01:53 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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If you want to get laid, go to college, but if you want an education,
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12467568 - 04/27/10 05:30 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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A college degree is a lot like a shotgun... if you show it to the right person at the right time you could make a lot of money.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#12473983 - 04/28/10 08:02 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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" to be or not to be, that is the question"
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ringAlingAdingA]
#12474609 - 04/28/10 10:08 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12475489 - 04/29/10 02:25 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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...we hate gladiators if they are keen to save their life by any means; we favour them if they openly show contempt for it. You must realize that the same thing applies to us: for often the cause of dying is the fear of it. Dame Fortune, who makes sport with us, says 'Why should I preserve you, base and fearful creature? You will only receive more sever wounds and stabs as you don't know how to offer your throat. But you will both live longer and die more easily, since you receive the blade bravely, without withdrawing your neck and putting your hands in the way. He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man. But he who knows that this was the condition laid down for him at the moment of his conception, will live on those therms, and at the same time he will guarantee with a similar strength of mind that no events take him by surprise. For by foreseeing anything that can happen as though it will happen he will soften the onslaught of all his troubles, which present no surprises to those who are ready and waiting fo them, but fall heavily on those who are careless in the expectation that all will be well. - Seneca the younger
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#12477778 - 04/29/10 01:01 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mr. Cypher said:
A college degree is a lot like a shotgun... if you show it to the right person at the right time you could make a lot of money.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Iron_man]
#12478412 - 04/29/10 02:47 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Iron_man said:
"I think, Therefore I am." Quoted by René . Best philosophical quote ever.
In my opinion, it should be: I think, therefore existence
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"Pour me a drink so I can refuse to toast" --Lorie Moore
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12487589 - 05/01/10 06:12 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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learningtofly said:
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TrippyHippie74]
#12494281 - 05/02/10 02:45 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Hey i want some Cid too!
E f f e c t, a smooth operator operating correctly -RATM
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
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I often find myself in awe, in absolute wonder, of the things that make up my reality. How small the thought of the seemingly infinite universe makes me feel. It leaves me with a thirst for knowledge beyond our own feeble understanding of the vast expanses of space. - Not sure
A story-A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. Afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper; his hands remember the rifle.- Anthony Swofford
How foolish wars and their men can be.- Hydrolaw
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: hydrolaw]
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"Ecstasy is the moment, the feeling that you belong to the universe and fit in the universe."
- Guy from "Attack of The Happy People"
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle"
-Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
-Aristotle
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Mr. Mushrooms
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: 5-HT2A]
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Philosophia biou kybernētēs—Philosophy, the guide to life.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#12513671 - 05/05/10 08:39 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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A casual stroll through an insane asylum proves that faith means nothing.
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I see you
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ImaginingEmotions
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ToastyMush]
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Quote:
ToastyMush said:
A casual stroll through an insane asylum proves that faith means nothing.
I'm not entirely sure the person who wrote this quote even knows what faith is.
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
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learningtofly
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ImaginingEmotions said:
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ToastyMush said:
A casual stroll through an insane asylum proves that faith means nothing.
I'm not entirely sure the person who wrote this quote even knows what faith is.
Nietzsche knew a thing or two about faith
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12528250 - 05/08/10 05:03 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth." - Will Rogers
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Instead of giving money to fund colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. - Will Rogers
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Criss2fur]
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History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TrippyHippie74]
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The sword that kills the man is the sword that saves the man.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12537451 - 05/10/10 01:45 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#12541516 - 05/11/10 03:24 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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"On a large enough timescale, petty notions of good and evil cease to be relevant."
Meximus
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"Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies." - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the US
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." - John Adams, 2nd President of the US
"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion." - George Washington, 1st President of the US
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Meximus]
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“Happy is he who causes a scandal”
Salvador Dalí quote
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
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the Jews did it
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Jesus loves you.
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The-saurus
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: andrewss]
#12576406 - 05/16/10 10:21 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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"The Grass is always browner on the other side."
ME
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: The-saurus]
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All religions are invented by men who want to torture women. - Taslima Nasrin
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
#12580421 - 05/17/10 04:06 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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The chinaman is not the issue.
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LisonAlGaib
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12580480 - 05/17/10 04:13 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Seeing all these quotes reminds me of one of my favorites.......
"The more I know about people, the more I like my dog" Mark Twain
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LisonAlGaib
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LisonAlGaib]
#12580492 - 05/17/10 04:15 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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or how about
"Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal" Immortal Technique
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TrippyHippie74
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LisonAlGaib]
#12581209 - 05/17/10 06:07 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
LisonAlGaib said:
Seeing all these quotes reminds me of one of my favorites.......
"The more I know about people, the more I like my dog" Mark Twain
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Go see the sounds of the universe
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TrippyHippie74]
#12581228 - 05/17/10 06:11 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12581234 - 05/17/10 06:12 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.
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auxiliary
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TrippyHippie74]
#12581241 - 05/17/10 06:13 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
TrippyHippie74 said:
Quote:
LisonAlGaib said:
Seeing all these quotes reminds me of one of my favorites.......
"The more I know about people, the more I like my dog" Mark Twain
My thoughts exactly. Twain is the main.
Sometimes.
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LisonAlGaib
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: auxiliary]
#12582080 - 05/17/10 08:35 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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"Be good, and you'll be lonesome" I like that one too........
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cc2
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LisonAlGaib]
#12584135 - 05/18/10 06:41 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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there is no way to happiness, happiness is the way
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LisonAlGaib
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: cc2]
#12584410 - 05/18/10 07:50 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
cc2 said:
there is no way to happiness, happiness is the way
Who said that? From Thus Spoke Zarathustra, ".....happiness is a woman."
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cc2
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LisonAlGaib]
#12584471 - 05/18/10 08:07 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
LisonAlGaib said:
Quote:
cc2 said:
there is no way to happiness, happiness is the way
Who said that? From Thus Spoke Zarathustra, ".....happiness is a woman."
I heard of it as a buddhist quote, dunno if nietzsche used something along these lines
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husk
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: cc2]
#12722533 - 06/10/10 06:30 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. -Albert Einstein
Time is relative, for example, one's experience of time differs Greatly depending on which side of the toilet door your on. -unknown
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Joan
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: husk]
#12730575 - 06/12/10 08:08 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Expectations lead to disappointment.
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inlakesh1
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#12764540 - 06/18/10 03:08 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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"Wow, these quotes are amazing."
that is a philosophical quote.
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blinkybill
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: inlakesh1]
#12787601 - 06/22/10 08:52 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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"a great stride has been made when we turn our backs on the real" Marcel Proust
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" ... and then there are the unknown unknowns. Those things that we don't know that we don't know that we don't know."
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MattyBong
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blinkybill]
#12789725 - 06/23/10 09:55 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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My sig.
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---Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions---
--- A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?---
---This sentence is false---
---You met me at a very strange time in my life---
---Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one---
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Freedom
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: MattyBong]
#12790118 - 06/23/10 11:16 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain an idea without accepting it." - Aristotle
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origuami
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Freedom]
#12790130 - 06/23/10 11:20 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Freedom said:
"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain an idea without accepting it." - Aristotle
theres a great one
i used to research quotes for HOURS but i've cut back simply because the shroomery does it for me now
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MattyBong
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: origuami]
#12790216 - 06/23/10 11:38 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Wise men make proverbs, fools repeat them
-Sam Palmer
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---Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions---
--- A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?---
---This sentence is false---
---You met me at a very strange time in my life---
---Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one---
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Freedom
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: MattyBong]
#12790267 - 06/23/10 11:47 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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origuami
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: MattyBong]
#12790278 - 06/23/10 11:51 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking knife to it.
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I don't believe in cops, bosses, or politicians. Some call that anarchism. I call it having a fucking heart that beats.
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LisonAlGaib
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: origuami]
#12791716 - 06/23/10 03:57 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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"Nothing is impossible, if you can imagine it. That's what being a scientist is all about." Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
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zdurk1020
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#12799627 - 06/24/10 08:25 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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i cant remember exactly how it goes, a profesor said it during class once, it was said by Socrates about homo sexuality. "you can not only have good sex with a man but good conversion afterwards too"
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Effed
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: zdurk1020]
#12849926 - 07/04/10 10:40 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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You can make new friends, but you can't make old friends. - Me
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Silversoul
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Effed]
#12850003 - 07/04/10 11:09 PM (1 year, 7 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
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Absurdity
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#12860683 - 07/07/10 05:15 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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“Truth cannot be out there—cannot exist independently of the human mind—because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Only descriptions of the world can be true or false.”
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Someone come save my anti-collected mind, entertain it, fade it whatever you find right, even suitable, and not eluded at all, this crucible is pouring the magma of boredom into a mold, like the patient walk of molasses strolling out of glasses upside down, unfold my brain into a pillow or a crown because my head just might explode with a silent yet deafening cloud coming out of the domain of the biggest happiest rock. Out of the land where we see the forgotten stars and mark are selves with adventurous scars, and mental images of the beauty within, and the sound that we made to elate the insane perception of who we are, what we do and why it doesn't matter too, a question leading head spins lead to a simplified life times two.
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Sartre
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Absurdity]
#12877974 - 07/10/10 01:20 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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"I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild." ~Dr. Albert Hoffman~
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LucidSid
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Sartre]
#12907551 - 07/16/10 01:20 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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IF you dont feel good your not feeling right,
and if your not feeling right your feeling wrong
If your feeling wrong you feel Shitty
IF you feel you are,
If you are your awake
IF you dont feel you arnt
IF your arnt your a seagul
-ME
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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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origuami
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: LucidSid] 1
#12909948 - 07/16/10 11:03 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
LucidSid said:
IF you dont feel good your not feeling right,
and if your not feeling right your feeling wrong
If your feeling wrong you feel Shitty
IF you feel you are,
If you are your awake
IF you dont feel you arnt
IF your arnt your a seagul
-ME
not sure we're on the same wavelength, brah 
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I don't believe in cops, bosses, or politicians. Some call that anarchism. I call it having a fucking heart that beats.
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kissablemilklight
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: origuami]
#12909991 - 07/16/10 11:19 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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"Does this man not yet know? Has he not yet heard? That God is dead!" Nietzche
I like this one because it angers people when they hear it
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"It's Gloom as unpredicted on this earth. I realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror before pure realization that there is no wall and there is no horror just transcendental empty kissable milk light of everlasting eternity's pure and perfect empty nature"- Kerouac
Party Tent Brewing
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