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Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes 4
#10262036 - 04/30/09 11:43 AM (14 years, 8 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] 1
#10262057 - 04/30/09 11:46 AM (14 years, 8 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] 2
#10262065 - 04/30/09 11:48 AM (14 years, 8 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: Grapefruit] 2
#10272263 - 05/02/09 08:10 AM (14 years, 8 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: Icelander]
#11424959 - 11/10/09 09:31 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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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: learningtofly]
#11676657 - 12/18/09 05:55 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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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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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Silversoul] 1
#11736405 - 12/29/09 09:54 AM (14 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: yelyarb]
#11790558 - 01/08/10 03:52 PM (14 years, 22 days ago) |
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. --Martin Heidegger
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11796305 - 01/09/10 01:47 PM (14 years, 21 days ago) |
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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 Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11796901 - 01/09/10 03:24 PM (14 years, 21 days ago) |
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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: RationalEgo]
#11796929 - 01/09/10 03:29 PM (14 years, 21 days 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 and Spiritual Quotes [Re: blackdust]
#12117785 - 03/01/10 12:33 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ooh nice.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12168727 - 03/09/10 03:44 AM (13 years, 10 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: igwna]
#12171699 - 03/09/10 03:31 PM (13 years, 10 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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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12328215 - 04/04/10 10:27 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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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: ImaginingEmotions]
#12348926 - 04/07/10 01:50 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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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: jw2234]
#12356504 - 04/08/10 04:47 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: mellow vibez]
#12381831 - 04/12/10 10:10 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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meaning never -me
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: offgridsid]
#12386610 - 04/13/10 05:03 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Word.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#12386622 - 04/13/10 05:04 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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that was really philosophical d00d
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