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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cory Duchesne] 3
#28508273 - 10/17/23 02:51 PM (3 months, 9 days ago) |
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher] 2
#28515297 - 10/23/23 01:41 PM (3 months, 4 days ago) |
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“ god does not hate the man that needs to steal. He hates the man that made him steal.”
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GenesisCorrupted said: “ god does not hate the man that needs to steal. He hates the man that made him steal.”
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"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchens
"Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike... Except in California." - Alan Moore, Watchmen (after Matthew 5:45)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: doolhoofd] 2
#28517543 - 10/25/23 09:28 AM (3 months, 2 days ago) |
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 1
#28521324 - 10/28/23 03:57 PM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
What happens when somebody is rude to another person? What happens to the recipient? And I'm talking here about mild to moderate rudeness; I'm not talking about screaming and shouting in your face. That's completely different. On average, when somebody is rude to us in a mild to moderate way, our bandwidth reduces by 61 percent. And then we cart it with us through the day. We cart this thought of "What on earth happened?" When rudeness in teams turns deadly | Chris Turner
"We know that the way that somebody has just treated the last person is likely the way the treat the next person." When rudeness in teams turns deadly | Chris Turner
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Cory Duchesne]
#28521355 - 10/28/23 04:18 PM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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Didn't Schopenhauer kick an old lady down a flight of stairs?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: ballsalsa]
#28521372 - 10/28/23 04:26 PM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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'On one occasion, an old woman chatting outside his door made him so angry that he pushed her down the stairs. She was injured, and a court ordered Schopenhauer to pay compensation to her for the rest of her life.Jun 12, 2013, Yale Books Blog
-------------------- C.G. Jung: "Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know." "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." - Carl Jung Krishna, as his friends called him, freely admitted his compulsive lying. He blamed it on simple fear of having his deceptions detected." NOTES OF A FRINGE-WATCHER MARTIN GARDNER on J Krishnamurti "All your questions are born out of the answers you already have. Any answer anybody gives should put an end to your questions. But it does not." [UG-K]
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Cory Duchesne]
#28521375 - 10/28/23 04:29 PM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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Yeah, maybe I won't be taking lessons in etiquette from that guy, lol
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#28522605 - 10/29/23 04:57 PM (2 months, 28 days ago) |
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GenesisCorrupted said: To truly get rid of guns. We need to do away with any need for them.
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A person is born with an axe in their mouth.
Shakyamuni Buddha
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 1
#28525727 - 11/01/23 05:53 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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"The most intelligent beings I have ever met are plants, so why shouldn't I eat meat?" - Terence McKenna
"And raising deer, boars, rabbits, chickens, wildfowl, and even edible rodents, would be even more economical—and better protect nature—than goats." Masanobu Fukuoka, natural farmer and meat advocate
-------------------- C.G. Jung: "Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know." "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." - Carl Jung Krishna, as his friends called him, freely admitted his compulsive lying. He blamed it on simple fear of having his deceptions detected." NOTES OF A FRINGE-WATCHER MARTIN GARDNER on J Krishnamurti "All your questions are born out of the answers you already have. Any answer anybody gives should put an end to your questions. But it does not." [UG-K]
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Cory Duchesne] 1
#28525776 - 11/01/23 06:37 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Mrs. Piggott: Why do you take milk, but not eggs? Maharshi: The domesticated cows yield more milk than necessary for their calves and they find it a pleasure to be relieved of the milk.
-------------------- C.G. Jung: "Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know." "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." - Carl Jung Krishna, as his friends called him, freely admitted his compulsive lying. He blamed it on simple fear of having his deceptions detected." NOTES OF A FRINGE-WATCHER MARTIN GARDNER on J Krishnamurti "All your questions are born out of the answers you already have. Any answer anybody gives should put an end to your questions. But it does not." [UG-K]
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Cory Duchesne] 1
#28525777 - 11/01/23 06:37 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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"If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people". - Edward Wilson, sociobiologist, Harvard University.
-------------------- C.G. Jung: "Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know." "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." - Carl Jung Krishna, as his friends called him, freely admitted his compulsive lying. He blamed it on simple fear of having his deceptions detected." NOTES OF A FRINGE-WATCHER MARTIN GARDNER on J Krishnamurti "All your questions are born out of the answers you already have. Any answer anybody gives should put an end to your questions. But it does not." [UG-K]
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Cory Duchesne]
#28538669 - 11/11/23 12:28 PM (2 months, 16 days ago) |
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From Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities, Chapter 72, Science Smiles In Its Beard, Or A First Full-Dress Encounter With Evil
"Before intellectual man discovered his delight in the facts, the only ones who experienced such a delight were warriors, hunters and merchants - that is to say, folks whose nature it was to be cunning and violent. In the struggle for life there are no philosophical sentimentalities, only the need to eliminate one's opponent by the quickest and most practical method - in this field everyone is a positivist. Nor would it be a virtue, in commerce, to let oneself be deceived, instead of putting one's trust in solid facts, profit being, in the last resort, a psychological vanquishing of one's opponent, arising out of the particular circumstances. However, if one investigates what qualities lead to discoveries, what one finds is: freedom from traditional scruples and inhibitions, courage, as much creative as destructive spirit, exclusion of all moral considerations, patient bargaining for the tiniest advantage, dogged endurance en route to the goal when necessary, and a veneration for measure and number amounting to the most acute mistrust of anything even remotely indicating uncertainty - in other words, one discovers naught but the old hunter's, soldier's and merchant's vices, here simply transposed into intellectual terms and reinterpreted as virtues. And though by these means they are raised above the urge for personal and comparatively vulgar advantage, the element of primordial Evil, as it might be called, is something they do not lose even in undergoing this transformation: for it is apparently indestructible and eternal, at least as eternal as anything humanly sublime, since it consists in nothing other than the pleasure of tripping that sublimity up, and watching it fall flat on its face. Who among us is unfamiliar with the malicious temptation, when contemplating a magnificently decorated and voluptuously curved glazed vase, of the thought that one could smash it to smithereens with one single blow? Intensified into the heroically bitter realization that in life, one cannot rely on anything except on what is solidly clinched and riveted, this is a basic sentiment enclosed within the soberness of science; and even if, for reasons of respect, it seems undesirable to call it the Devil, one should admit it carries with it a whiff of brimstone."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: doolhoofd] 4
#28539568 - 11/11/23 11:11 PM (2 months, 15 days ago) |
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If a person is cynical, meaning they see bad behavior in everyone, it's easy for them to excuse their own bad behavior.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#28539706 - 11/12/23 04:29 AM (2 months, 15 days ago) |
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RJ Tubs 202 said: If a person is cynical, meaning they see bad behavior in everyone, it's easy for them to excuse their own bad behavior.
Elon Musk
Don't shoot the pianist.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#28539715 - 11/12/23 05:09 AM (2 months, 15 days ago) |
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"Dante was trying to get to the bottom of what constitutes evil: there's a hierarchy of reprehensible behavior, and Dante thought, it was betrayal. And I think that's right; because I believe the fundamental human resource is trust. Trust is an unbelievably powerful economic force." - Jordan Peterson
"You can never win a final battle with evil. It's a permanent property of the world. To deny the reality of evil, is the ultimate naivety." - also Peterson
"Good never comes from a purification of evil (evil always strikes back in a forceful way), but from a subtle treatment which turns evil against itself." - Jean Baudrillard, A Conjuration Of Imbeciles
"Is not true optimism to consider the world a fundamentally negative event, with many happy exceptions? By contrast, does not true pessimism consist in viewing the world as fundamentally good, leaving the slightest accident to make us despair of that vision? An ideal universe at the mercy of the slightest reversal and doomed, in any case, to death? And does not true superstition consist in regarding evil as an exception which ought to disappear? We judge everything today in terms of a real and rational sequence of events. But we could equally fully and reasonably view those events as part of an irrational sequence - we simply have to reverse the perspective and take a maleficent transcendence rather than a providential force as our reference. We would be less despairing if we regarded every misfortune as justified by a transcendent order of evil. Such is the rule of a radical optimism. We must make evil the basic rule. Then, the fortunate occurrence becomes the exception. Then, it is joy we would be fated to meet with. At any rate, in relation to an impossible truth, the two hypotheses are equally (im)plausible. But the hypothesis of evil has the advantage of restoring to the world its illegal character. Moreover, it lends a new prestige to good and happiness, the prestige of a miraculous exception." - Jean Baudrillard, Fragments
-------------------- Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?' Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray." Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?' Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray." Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...' Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness." - The Big Bang Theory, S07E09
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#28541579 - 11/13/23 02:58 PM (2 months, 13 days ago) |
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“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?” - Marcus Aurelius
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: MicoPata]
#28544909 - 11/16/23 07:11 AM (2 months, 11 days ago) |
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My brother went straight to Bhagavan and said, “They say that coffee is your Prasad. I am not accustomed to coffee and I do not like it.’ Bhagavan answered, ‘I never ask for coffee. Whether I like it or not, people make me drink coffee, say that coffee is my prasad, and then drink coffee to their heart’s content. They also induce others to drink it, saying that if they refuse, they refuse my prasad.’(Bhagavan’s Prasad)
-------------------- C.G. Jung: "Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know." "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." - Carl Jung Krishna, as his friends called him, freely admitted his compulsive lying. He blamed it on simple fear of having his deceptions detected." NOTES OF A FRINGE-WATCHER MARTIN GARDNER on J Krishnamurti "All your questions are born out of the answers you already have. Any answer anybody gives should put an end to your questions. But it does not." [UG-K]
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Cory Duchesne] 1
#28547593 - 11/18/23 08:21 AM (2 months, 9 days ago) |
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Everything is meant to be let go of, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness.
Meister Eckhart
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