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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander] 1
#10313354 - 05/09/09 03:35 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Before Abraham was, I Am"
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11439547 - 11/12/09 10:07 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Do not forget: A man needs little to lead a happy life." ~Marcus Aurelius
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11439681 - 11/12/09 10:39 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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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.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11461674 - 11/15/09 05:05 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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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
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X] 1
#11639006 - 12/12/09 08:30 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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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
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11641644 - 12/13/09 09:39 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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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.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11641784 - 12/13/09 10:17 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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You're not old yet.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11776423 - 01/06/10 12:53 PM (14 years, 25 days 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.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11796933 - 01/09/10 03:31 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.
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?
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12579477 - 05/17/10 02:39 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#13230631 - 09/22/10 10:03 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Food and clean water have real, inherent value. So do materials that conduct electricity, materials that can be used in food production and medical technologies, etc. People don't have to agree that a potato is useful for nutritional value to be derived from it; no one has to agree that wood and concrete are useful for shelters to built out of them; but if everyone decided that money had no value, it would be good for nothing.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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