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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: graceful dragon]
#23647523 - 09/15/16 01:32 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
-H. P. Lovecraft
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
James Baldwin
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#23658200 - 09/19/16 09:11 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail"
Google says most accredited to Mr.Ben Franklin. I recall seeing this quote translated from Japanese characters at my old Judo dojo, I used to beleive that it was a quote originating from the training and competition involved in such martial arts.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: GoodStrong]
#23662687 - 09/20/16 06:49 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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"People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines." --Ludwig von Bertalanffy
"If God didn't exist, man would invent him." --Plato
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#23663693 - 09/20/16 11:35 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 1
#23670602 - 09/23/16 10:09 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think". --attributed to both Horace Walpole and Jean de la Bruyère
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23675307 - 09/24/16 09:33 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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"I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression." --Chuck Palahniuk (from Fight Club)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23675429 - 09/24/16 10:32 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
There is no instance of a country having been benefited from prolonged warfare.
--Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Quote:
Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.
--Otto von Bismarck
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For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
--Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: ballsalsa]
#23675593 - 09/25/16 12:03 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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You are not your fault.
Wes Nisker
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
#23681367 - 09/26/16 09:23 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss.
A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING.
I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.
I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.
I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
I love him who lives in order to know, and seeks to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeks he his own down-going.
I love him who labors and invents, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeks he his own down-going.
I love him who loves his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.
I love him who reserves no share of spirit for himself, but wants to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walks he as spirit over the bridge.
I love him who makes his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.
I love him who desires not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always bestows, and desires not to keep for himself.
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favor, and who then asks: "Am I a dishonest player?"--for he is willing to succumb.
I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.
I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.
I love him who chastens his God, because he loves his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goes he willingly over the bridge.
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things that are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causes his down-going.
I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowers over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.
Lo, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is the SUPERMAN.--” --F.W. Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum] 1
#23682825 - 09/27/16 10:38 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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So many fantastic finds here throughout this thread! A small contribution:
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. – Samuel Beckett
All of great acts of genius began with the same consideration: do not be constrained by your present reality. – Leonardo da Vinci
Success is fucking up on your own terms. – Guillermo del Toro
[The human being] experiences himself... as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. – Albert Einstein
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Dreamfarer]
#23687079 - 09/28/16 02:55 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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"The smarter we get, the more dangerous our world becomes." --Captain Davidson, Planet of the Apes (2001)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum] 2
#23694218 - 09/30/16 02:31 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights." --Le Marquis de Lafayette, Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23705056 - 10/03/16 09:13 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Only understanding, honesty, industry and frugality are needed to make us a great and happy people." --George Washington
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23711308 - 10/05/16 08:14 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ruthless Robbie Lawler - "If I hurt him, I wasn't taking his neck" - presenter asks, "what would you take?"
Robbie Lawler's reply: "HIS SOUL".
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Exceed19_2000] 1
#23720918 - 10/08/16 10:45 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Max Lucado
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#23721823 - 10/09/16 11:24 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery." --Kurt Vonnegut
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23726929 - 10/10/16 10:27 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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The 'doer' of all the things you've ever done was seen, so you can't even be the one who does things, so doing more things is just escapism. Gaining more knowledge is just procrastination. Thinking that it's somewhere in the future, or that you're getting closer is just a dream.
Maybe it could be so simple? So simple that most will never even look.
--Tmethyl, in a thread in S&M
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#23732227 - 10/12/16 07:16 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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"I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second Essais and see no reason why his definition of free will — 'the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts' — need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will assume for the present — until next year — that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will." --William James
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum] 1
#23734239 - 10/13/16 02:06 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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"It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person." -Bill Murray
“You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.” -Ben Goldacre
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Edited by maynardjameskeenan (10/13/16 02:43 PM)
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