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 Iron_man
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#10508922 - 06/15/09 04:16 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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"I think, Therefore I am." Quoted by René . Best philosophical quote ever.
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It's not who we are, but what we do that defines us.
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Lakefingers
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Iron_man]
#10509783 - 06/15/09 08:36 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Why?
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xFrockx
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Iron_man]
#10509813 - 06/15/09 08:44 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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That's only if you believe in a discrete self.
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 deranger
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: xFrockx]
#10510229 - 06/15/09 10:32 AM (2 years, 11 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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BrainChemistry
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10510563 - 06/15/09 11:44 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Care to mention what its from?
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deranger
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: BrainChemistry]
#10510656 - 06/15/09 12:00 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Jack Haas - Roots & Wings I believe
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rexxor
Mycologist in Training
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deranger]
#10512750 - 06/15/09 06:14 PM (2 years, 11 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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bocuma
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Iron_man]
#10515974 - 06/16/09 08:42 AM (2 years, 11 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.
Edited by bocuma (06/16/09 08:44 AM)
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deimya
tofu and monocle
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: bocuma]
#10517249 - 06/16/09 01:10 PM (2 years, 11 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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xFrockx
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deimya]
#10518189 - 06/16/09 03:29 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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RationalEgo
Principium Individuationis
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: xFrockx]
#10518636 - 06/16/09 04:52 PM (2 years, 11 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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daytripper23
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#10519123 - 06/16/09 06:21 PM (2 years, 11 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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rebus_minus
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: daytripper23]
#10519165 - 06/16/09 06:28 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
daytripper23 said:
lol
Ayn Rand
"The Empire Never Ended." Horselover Fat
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Silversoul
Holon
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: daytripper23]
#10519191 - 06/16/09 06:32 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
daytripper23 said:
lol
Ayn Rand
My thoughts exactly
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Sventington
am what I am what I am what I am
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#10519422 - 06/16/09 07:05 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hey.
Cult leaders can be philosophers too.
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RationalEgo
Principium Individuationis
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Sventington]
#10519499 - 06/16/09 07:22 PM (2 years, 11 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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Sventington
am what I am what I am what I am
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#10519586 - 06/16/09 07:37 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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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, 11 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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sterbeklang
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: daytripper23]
#10558067 - 06/23/09 07:06 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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"Don't dis Ayn Rand. The people you like are no better."
-sterbeklang
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Edited by sterbeklang (06/23/09 07:07 AM)
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Romi
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#10564765 - 06/24/09 12:04 PM (2 years, 10 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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