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tektonic
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: deCypher] 1
#10424858 - 05/30/09 11:43 AM (14 years, 9 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"
-------------------- Growery Daily Tzolkin "If triangles' had a God, he would have 3 sides."
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: tektonic] 1
#10424998 - 05/30/09 12:16 PM (14 years, 9 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."
-------------------- Word to your mom.
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: deCypher] 1
#10464499 - 06/07/09 04:37 AM (14 years, 9 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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Silversoul
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: roomshunter] 1
#10465990 - 06/07/09 01:38 PM (14 years, 9 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: rebus_minus] 1
#10470242 - 06/08/09 11:01 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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You can lead a man to reason, but you can't make him think. - Death by Stereo
-------------------- "When any answer is possible all answers are meaningless" --Isaac Asimov "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] 1
#10472247 - 06/08/09 05:09 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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To stop seeing fools, break your mirror. - Rabelais
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Silversoul
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Lakefingers] 1
#10472435 - 06/08/09 05:48 PM (14 years, 9 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
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: Silversoul] 1
#10475621 - 06/09/09 03:57 AM (14 years, 9 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] 1
#10475624 - 06/09/09 03:59 AM (14 years, 9 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: rebus_minus] 1
#10475849 - 06/09/09 06:33 AM (14 years, 9 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] 1
#10475858 - 06/09/09 06:37 AM (14 years, 9 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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deimya
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Re: Your favorite philosophical and spiritual quotes. [Re: rebus_minus] 1
#10482853 - 06/10/09 02:26 PM (14 years, 9 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] 1
#10484307 - 06/10/09 07:03 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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The Intensity of Everything depends on how Intense you Think about it. ~Broughton
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Ranho
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: HALFemptyJOSH] 1
#10488030 - 06/11/09 12:51 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
Anything about Nietzsche
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Sventington
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Ranho] 1
#10488234 - 06/11/09 01:24 PM (14 years, 9 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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Lakefingers
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Sventington] 1
#10503268 - 06/14/09 04:54 AM (14 years, 9 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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