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Pandora5a
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: soul.adventurer]
#15821406 - 02/16/12 10:53 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Death, however, should be looked in the face by young and old alike. We are not summoned according to our rating on the censor's list. Moreover, no one is so old that it would be improper for him to hope for another day of existence. And one day, mind you, is a stage on life's journey.
- Seneca, Epistle XII, Epistles Book I
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happy tree man
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Pandora5a]
#15836948 - 02/20/12 10:17 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Life and death is a seamless continuum, mmmmhm..." -Scruffy
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Pandora5a
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: happy tree man]
#15954093 - 03/16/12 02:37 AM (12 years, 16 days ago) |
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Picked this up off someones sig, not sure who:
"Everything in moderation: Including moderation."
What you think?
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dustinthewind13
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Pandora5a]
#15955533 - 03/16/12 02:08 PM (12 years, 15 days ago) |
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I would moderately moderate only certain things... healthy things... although this is only in theory.
-------------------- "It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and forget his own." - Marcus Tullius Cicero "A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it." -Thomas Jefferson
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teknix
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: dustinthewind13]
#16019489 - 03/30/12 02:26 PM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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For the greater good of all humanity is the best course for all of humanity. -tek
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teknix
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: teknix]
#16019582 - 03/30/12 02:45 PM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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Within the objective phenomena of love lies the key to objective morality.
-------------------- .6th and 7th sense theory .Now is forever. .ﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞTheﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ ﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞUnseenﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ is seenﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ by the blindﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ eye.ﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ ﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ ﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ ﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ ﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ ﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ.When the inevitable time comes, go with your head held high,without regret or remorse, in your subconscious mind. ﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ ﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞﱞ
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midace12
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: teknix]
#16020495 - 03/30/12 06:13 PM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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"That's what she said."
Michael Scott
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Cowboyjesus
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: midace12]
#16028430 - 04/01/12 09:33 AM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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"Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; that which cometh out of the mouth defileth a man." (Mat. 15:11)
-------------------- Our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you can't help them, atleast don't hurt them. -The Esteemed Dalai Lama
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stumpme
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cowboyjesus]
#16057787 - 04/07/12 04:32 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Take it easy, but take it! haha perfect..
"then you will know why the trees bury their roots far into the earth, where they see no sun shine breathing spring time."
-------------------- just give me a field and a sun ray!
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xXxCelestialxXx
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: stumpme]
#16102214 - 04/17/12 02:39 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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good stuff! i always liked the one:
"Nature is not mute, it is man who is deaf."
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psisha
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: xXxCelestialxXx]
#16152421 - 04/28/12 06:31 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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"Some lives were made to be wasted" Charles Bukowski
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: psisha] 1
#16160062 - 04/30/12 12:24 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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“Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awarness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. As awarness calls for types of heroic dedication that his culture no longer provides for him, society contrives to help him forget. In the mysterious way in which life is given to us in evolution on this planet, it pushes in the direction of its own expansion. We don’t understand it simply because we don’t know the purpose of creation; we only feel life straining in ourselves and see it thrashing others about as they devour each other. Life seeks to expand in an unknown direction for unknown reasons.
What are we to make of creation in which routine activity is for organisms to be tearing others apart with teeth of all types - biting, grinding flesh, plant stalks, bones between molars, pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet with delight, incorporating its essence into one’s own organization, and then excreting with foul stench and gasses residue. Everyone reaching out to incorporate others who are edible to him. The mosquitoes bloating themselves on blood, the maggots, the killer-bees attacking with a fury and a demonism, sharks continuing to tear and swallow while their own innards are being torn out - not to mention the daily dismemberment and slaughter in “natural” accidents of all types: an earthquake buries alive 70 thousand bodies in Peru, a tidal wave washes over a quarter of a million in the Indian Ocean. Creation is a nightmare spectacular taking place on a planet that has been soaked for hundreds of millions of years in the blood of all creatures. The soberest conclusion that we could make about what has actually been taking place on the planet about three billion years is that it is being turned into a vast pit of fertilizer. But the sun distracts our attention, always baking the blood dry, making things grow over it, and with its warmth giving the hope that comes with the organism’s comfort and expansiveness.” ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
-------------------- "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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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander] 1
#16160072 - 04/30/12 12:28 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Moar Becker:
Life cannot go on without the mutual devouring of organisms. If at the end of each person’s life he were to be presented with the living spectacle of all that he had organismically incorporated in order to stay alive, he might well feel horrified by the living energy he had ingested. The horizon of a gourmet, or even the average person, would be taken up with hundreds of chickens, flocks of lambs and sheep, a small herd of steers, sties full of pigs, and rivers of fish. The din alone would be deafening. To paraphrase Elias Canetti, each organism raises its head over a field of corpses, smiles into the sun, and declares life good.
-------------------- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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MushroomNSwiss
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#16180160 - 05/04/12 02:09 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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I hope none of these were posted. I'm really big into the early American History and Native Americans. Growing up in Alaska and Montana probably influenced that. Anyway, here are some that I like and some that I think are just humorous.
The anticipation of death is oft times worse that death itself. (seen on a Steven Seagal movie)
“Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.” ― Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed
If you take [a copy of] the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and the rain. -Indian Proverb
"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys." - Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, British Columbia, Canada
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. - Apache
Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man. - Sioux
All who have died are equal. – Comanche
You already possess everything necessary to become great. – Crow
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times. - Tribe Unknown.
Every animal knows more than you do. - Nez Perce
Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed. – Plains
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Cherokee
Now these are people that knew how to live. By me!
-------------------- The early bird may get the worm... but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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MushroomNSwiss
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: MushroomNSwiss]
#16180165 - 05/04/12 02:11 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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I really like the simplicity of the indian proverbs and quotes. They could sum up alot of shit in just one sentence.
-------------------- The early bird may get the worm... but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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VUnderground
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: MushroomNSwiss]
#16215093 - 05/11/12 01:10 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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If science and knowledge are supposedly pursued for its own sake, then how about the knowledge that life has no discernable purpose, knowledge that happiness, wonder, and curiosity are based in material organizations that were likely selected for their evolutionary survival value, and knowledge that there is no fundamentally rational basis for choosing life over death. Nihilism, noted Friedrich Nietzsche, “represents the ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and ideals”. This is the bankrupt, philosophical disaster area the West dwells in. I see no “bottom”, no limits to stop the freefall into value nothingness. Implicit in nihilism is the collapse of the entire human cause. The ultimate logical conclusion of Western values is the rational self-destruction of the West. Is this absurd? If this is absurd then it must also be absurd that I rage at the entire cosmos for having no ultimate meaning. But there is no reason to be pessimistic. There is no justification whatsoever for a negative attitude! There is no justification whatsoever for a positive attitude! There is no justification whatsoever for a neutral attitude! Who knows what will happen with certainty? I could be strolling down the street, being beautiful, on my way to kill myself, when suddenly I am run over by a bus. But wait a minute. Why am I doing this? Ah, yes, now I remember the punchline: I’ll try anything once! There is nothing to take seriously!
-Mitchel Heisman.
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PsychedelicVortex
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: VUnderground]
#16220475 - 05/12/12 04:25 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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"Preparation can only take us so far in life, after that we have to take a few leaps of faith" - Michael Scofield
"Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men" - Don Vito Corleone
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Edited by PsychedelicVortex (05/12/12 04:27 PM)
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: PsychedelicVortex]
#16222169 - 05/12/12 10:50 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
PsychedelicVortex said: "Preparation can only take us so far in life, after that we have to take a few leaps of faith" - Michael Scofield
"Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men" - Don Vito Corleone
Nice Juxtaposition Vortex!
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: VUnderground]
#16222707 - 05/13/12 01:18 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
VUnderground said: If science and knowledge are supposedly pursued for its own sake, then how about the knowledge that life has no discernable purpose, knowledge that happiness, wonder, and curiosity are based in material organizations that were likely selected for their evolutionary survival value, and knowledge that there is no fundamentally rational basis for choosing life over death. Nihilism, noted Friedrich Nietzsche, “represents the ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and ideals”. This is the bankrupt, philosophical disaster area the West dwells in. I see no “bottom”, no limits to stop the freefall into value nothingness. Implicit in nihilism is the collapse of the entire human cause. The ultimate logical conclusion of Western values is the rational self-destruction of the West. Is this absurd? If this is absurd then it must also be absurd that I rage at the entire cosmos for having no ultimate meaning. But there is no reason to be pessimistic. There is no justification whatsoever for a negative attitude! There is no justification whatsoever for a positive attitude! There is no justification whatsoever for a neutral attitude! Who knows what will happen with certainty? I could be strolling down the street, being beautiful, on my way to kill myself, when suddenly I am run over by a bus. But wait a minute. Why am I doing this? Ah, yes, now I remember the punchline: I’ll try anything once! There is nothing to take seriously!
-Mitchel Heisman.
-------------------- "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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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#16223177 - 05/13/12 06:30 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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"Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty... With martial valor, if one becomes like a revengeful ghost and shows great determination, though his head is cut off, he should not die.. "
-------------------- Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom or technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Tsunetomo Yamamoto
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