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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#22647774 - 12/12/15 09:10 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 1
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"Truths"... we no longer wish to bear their burden nor be deceived by them or be their accomplice... I dream a world where one could die for a comma. - Emil Cioran
What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free? - Emil Cioran
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something. - François de La Rochefoucauld
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel. - Antonin Artaud
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"Science, says [Herbert] Marcuse, is purely about the abstract and rational manipulation of the environment; it reduces everything to instrumental value, in the guise of being value-free." --Morris Berman, The Twilight of American Culture
"For I am building in the human understanding a true model of the world, such as it is in fact, not such as a man's own reason would have it to be; a thing which cannot be done without a very diligent dissection and anatomy of the world." (Aphorism 124) --Francis Bacon, the Novum Organum
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#22653568 - 12/14/15 11:06 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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“I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.” -Isaac Asimov, The Roving Mind
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm... that's funny...'" -Isaac Asimov
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"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." --Abraham Maslow
"Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful." --Robert Oppenheimer
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#22661965 - 12/16/15 06:39 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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He who lies down to sleep with itchy butt, wakes up with stinky finger. -Confucious
That was always really deep and meaningful to me.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: billy jowl]
#22683288 - 12/21/15 02:28 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Who can doubt that there is an American empire? -- an "informal" empire, not colonial in polity, but still richly equipped with imperial paraphernalia: troops, ships, planes, bases, proconsuls, local collaborators, all spread around the luckless planet." --Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion... but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do." --Samuel Huntington
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#22688626 - 12/22/15 10:20 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
Thomas Szasz
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#22732425 - 01/03/16 03:29 PM (8 years, 26 days ago) |
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There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past. First freedom and then Glory -- when that fails; Wealth, vice, corruption, -- barbarism at last.
--Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#22735725 - 01/04/16 12:32 PM (8 years, 26 days ago) |
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He who once promised much Is silent in himself. He who once ignited lightning Must long -- be a cloud.
--Nietzsche, "He who once promised much," The Poetry of Nietzsche
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#22742303 - 01/05/16 11:32 PM (8 years, 24 days ago) |
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THE HINDU DOCTRINE teaches that a human cycle, to which it gives the name Manvantara, is divided into four periods marking so many stages during which the primordial spirituality becomes gradually more and more obscured; these are the same periods that the ancient traditions of the West called the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages. We are now in the fourth age, the Kali- Yuga or 'dark age', and have been so already, it is said, for more than six thousand years, that is to say since a time far earlier than any known to 'classical' history. Since that time, the truths which were formerly within reach of all have become more and more hidden and inaccessible; those who possess them grow fewer and fewer, and although the treasure of 'nonhum~that is, supra-human) wisdom that was prior to all the ages can never be lost, it nevertheless becomes enveloped in more and more impenetrable veils, which hide it from men's sight and make it extremely difficult to discover. This is why we find everywhere, under various symbols, the same theme of something that has been lost-at least to all appearances and as far as the outer world is concerned-and that those who aspire to true knowledge must rediscover; but it is also said that what is thus hidden will become visible again at the end of the cycle, which, because of the continuity binding all things together, will coincide with the beginning of a new cycle.
RENE GUENON - THE CRISIS OF THE MODERN WORLD
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Hobozen]
#22742402 - 01/06/16 12:12 AM (8 years, 24 days ago) |
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"History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir."
Revilo P. Oliver
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Hobozen]
#22753581 - 01/08/16 05:27 PM (8 years, 21 days ago) |
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"If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father."
Deuteronomy 22:28-29
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#22753782 - 01/08/16 06:17 PM (8 years, 21 days ago) |
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The rest of verse 29: "He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: WScott]
#22754736 - 01/08/16 10:21 PM (8 years, 21 days ago) |
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"I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars--I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you." Revelation 3:9
"I know your afflictions and your poverty--yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan." Revelation 2:9
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"You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling." --Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#22766251 - 01/11/16 02:59 PM (8 years, 18 days ago) |
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Survivor is the best Palahniuk book.
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"The tribe... operate[s] on this principle: You give us your total support and we'll give you our total support. Total -- both ways. Without reservation -- both ways. People have died for that... People will die for that -- not because they're crazy but because this is something that actually means something to them. They will not exchange this total support for nine-to-five jobs and Social Security checks in their old age." --Daniel Quinn
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#22784881 - 01/16/16 02:02 AM (8 years, 14 days ago) |
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"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.”
Hermann Hesse
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#22800139 - 01/19/16 05:33 PM (8 years, 10 days ago) |
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"Man is more than ninety-nine percent automated, and he is only a very small fraction conscious. Whereas he tends to suggest that he is really highly responsible for what goes on... he is very successful despite his ignorance and vanity." --Buckminster Fuller
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