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NastyDHL



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“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
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Dephect




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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: NastyDHL]
#11356675 - 10/31/09 10:17 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Having found no self that is not other, the seeker must find that there is no other that is not self, so that in the absence of both other and self, there may be known the perfect peace, of the presence of absolute absence."
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Cyanesense
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Dephect]
#11357674 - 10/31/09 01:38 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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"You may not realize it at the time, but a kick in the teeth might be the best thing in the world for you." - Walt Disney
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Everything I say is totally false - and all my pictures were stolen from SWIM.
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yogabunny
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Cyanesense]
#11368951 - 11/02/09 12:42 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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I love the sufi poets, hafiz & rumi....sorry if any of these are repeats:
"The Happy Virus"
I caught the happy virus last night
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me.
"An Astronomical Question"
What
Would
Happen if God leaned down
And gave you a full wet
Kiss?
Hafiz
Doesn't mind answering astronomical questions
Like that:
You would surely start
Reciting all day, inebriated,
Rogue-poems
Like
This.
(both by hafiz)
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: yogabunny]
#11369012 - 11/02/09 12:48 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Twas ever thus" -Mr. Natural
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Penelope_Tree
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11420656 - 11/09/09 05:42 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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"And the rest of our lives will the moments accrue, when the shape of their goneness will flair up anew." - Joanna Newsom, This Side of The Blue
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simc
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Penelope_Tree]
#11424154 - 11/10/09 03:23 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Lead me Zeus, lead me destiny To the goals you have assigned. Should I resist, in a moment of perversity, I know I will need to follow nonetheless." - Cleanthes prayer to Zeus
"The greatest danger comes from excessive good fortune." - Seneca
"To study philosophy is to learn to die." - Montaigne
"Have you ever seen a man that thinks he is wise? You have more to hope from a mad man than from him" - Proverbs (supposedly, not sure where)
"He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How." - Nietzsche
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: simc]
#11424571 - 11/10/09 07:41 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Welcome to the shroomery. I hope to see you posting in this forum. (our little mad house)
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Lakefingers

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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11424682 - 11/10/09 08:15 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Everyone complains about their memory, none about their understanding.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Once again:
Against boredom, even the gods struggle in vain.
- Nietzsche
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11424708 - 11/10/09 08:23 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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More great quotes.
I can tell much about the person by the quotes they are attracted to.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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deCypher



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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11424959 - 11/10/09 09:31 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When it gives you potatoes, make vodka. --Russian proverb
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. --Philip K. Dick
One day I had an extraordinarily profound experience, one more "real" than I had ever had. I experienced the fact that some day I was going to die, And just before I died, two things would happen: One, I would regret my entire life; Two, I would want to live my life over again, and then I would die. --Hubert Selby Jr.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity. --Hegel
Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved, is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. --Epicurus
In my experience, some of the most successful relationships are based on lies and deceit...since that's where they end up anyway, it's a logical place to start. --Yuri Orlov
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. --Hunter S. Thompson
Few men think, yet all have opinions. --Berkeley
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. --Nietzsche
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. --William James, reflecting on Hegel after inhaling N2O.
Count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last. --Sophocles
One should not be too right if one wants to have those who laugh on one's side; a grain of wrong actually belongs to good taste. --Nietzsche
The surest poison is time. --Emerson
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. --Shakespeare
A wise fish never goes anywhere without a porpoise. --Lewis Caroll
One may be asked whether there is not a conflict between this development of the Will and Ethics. The answer is Yes. --Aleister Crowley
Birth is sorrow; life is sorrow; sorrowful are old age, disease, and death; but resurrection is the greatest misery of all. --Buddha
It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. --Nietzsche
Thou owest God a death. --William Shakespeare
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. --Bertrand Russell
Why couldn't the world that concerns us--be a fiction? And if somebody asked, "but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?"--couldn't one answer simply: why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too? --Nietzsche
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the dark conscious. --Carl Jung
Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by man; and cursed is the man whom the lion consumes, and lion becomes man. --Jesus Christ
The ruler of the world is Whirlwind, that hath unseated Zeus. --Aristophanes
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. --Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. --H.L. Mencken
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. --Giordano Bruno
All things were together. Then mind came and arranged them. --Anaxagoras
In reality we know nothing - for truth is in the depths. --Democritus
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. --Max Planck
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. --Socrates
I am a part of that force that would always desire the evil, yet always work the good. --Goethe
Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. --Arthur Conan Doyle
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. --William Blake
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. --Aristotle
-------------------- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
 
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#11425045 - 11/10/09 09:53 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Brilliant. Some of those are truly funny and amazing. Thanks for finding those.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11428689 - 11/10/09 08:15 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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"All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped to create . . . a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody—or at least some force—is tending the Light at the end of the tunnel. This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic . . . a blind faith in some higher and wiser 'authority.' The Pope, The General, The Prime Minister . . . all the way up to 'God.'" -- Hunter Thompson
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11428878 - 11/10/09 08:45 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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F. Forrester Church:
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
Felix Adler:
Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
Edited by Icelander (11/10/09 08:52 PM)
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RationalEgo
Principium Individuationis

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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11431220 - 11/11/09 04:31 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple--teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep--wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, hi is wise--follow him!-- Lady Burton
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11431602 - 11/11/09 07:43 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise--follow him!-
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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RationalEgo
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11431969 - 11/11/09 09:34 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.--Sir Francis Bacon
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RationalEgo
Principium Individuationis

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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11431981 - 11/11/09 09:37 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.--Ayn Rand
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Lakefingers

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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11432143 - 11/11/09 10:19 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Icelander said: More great quotes.
I can tell much about the person by the quotes they are attracted to. 
...and I chose quotes for the audience.
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RationalEgo
Principium Individuationis

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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11432145 - 11/11/09 10:19 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.--Martin Luther King, Jr
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