Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
~Ambrose Bierce~
I like that.
~Ambrose Bierce~
I like that.
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Famous Philosophical Quotes
- Thread starter OldBadfish
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Some arent famous, but here are some quotes I liked:
The meaning to life isnt a single answer, its all of them.
-Peter Owen
The simplist of man can over come the greatest of obstacle by believing in himself.
-Peter Owen
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
~ William James
"Going to church no more makes you a christian than sleeping in your garage makes you a car."
~ Garrison Keiler
"People to me are like cartoons. Some are funny, Some are stupid, but always I'm laughing at them. "
-Dan Mason
"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."
-unknown
Yeah, I basically just used this as an excuse to post some quotes I like.
The meaning to life isnt a single answer, its all of them.
-Peter Owen
The simplist of man can over come the greatest of obstacle by believing in himself.
-Peter Owen
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
~ William James
"Going to church no more makes you a christian than sleeping in your garage makes you a car."
~ Garrison Keiler
"People to me are like cartoons. Some are funny, Some are stupid, but always I'm laughing at them. "
-Dan Mason
"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."
-unknown
Yeah, I basically just used this as an excuse to post some quotes I like.
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YOUR heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this world.
- Ueshiba
- Ueshiba
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Annabel Lee
Beware the Thought Police
"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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jon1101
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"The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates
"Grant an idea or belief to be true, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?" -William James
Act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means. -Immanuel Kant
"There are no facts, only interpretations." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." Fredrich Nietzche
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire
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"Grant an idea or belief to be true, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?" -William James
Act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means. -Immanuel Kant
"There are no facts, only interpretations." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." Fredrich Nietzche
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire
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Annabel Lee
Beware the Thought Police
When I was about ten years old I read The Diary of Anne Frank for the first time. The words of this child victim of the Holocaust, written in such childlike innocence, affected me more than the writings of all the famous philosophers put together.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. And yet I think this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. And yet I think this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Michelle
Michelle
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Nathan Poe
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"Always do what's right. It'll gratify half of humankind and astound the other." --Mark Twain.
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein.
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." --Thomas Jefferson
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." --H. G. Wells.
and my favorite:
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates back in 1981.
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein.
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." --Thomas Jefferson
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." --H. G. Wells.
and my favorite:
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates back in 1981.
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David Gould
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"We have to believe in free will; we have no choice." (can't remember who said this ...)
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I searched for great men but found only the apes of their ideals.
Without music life would be a mistake.
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I doback to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
Nietzsche....
Without music life would be a mistake.
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I doback to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
Nietzsche....
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Michelle
Michelle
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
Michelle
Michelle
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Nathan Poe
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"All right, I fixed the hole in your roof; that'll be 15 shekels."
-Another Jewish Carpenter from Nazareth
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"The reason for which God pours out His Spirit is to make men holy and not politicians."
Thought that was a great line from Jonathan Edwards
Thought that was a great line from Jonathan Edwards
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We are born lucky. Yes, we are born lucky.... Earnest Heminway...
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace...Voltaire..
A peasant dies calmly because he is not a Christian. He performs the rituals as a matter of course, but his true religion is different. His religion is nature, with which he has lived.".. Leo Tolstoy
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace...Voltaire..
A peasant dies calmly because he is not a Christian. He performs the rituals as a matter of course, but his true religion is different. His religion is nature, with which he has lived.".. Leo Tolstoy
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Nathan Poe
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Well, it was tiny hole, and a favor for a friend. He didn't charge for the labor.
"THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR. HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED,
TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD."
-Same Jewish Carpenter from Nazareth
"I'll tell you, business has really picked up since the other guy left town to be a preacher!" --Same other Jewish carpenter from Nazareth.
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Nathan Poe
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Today at 08:48 AM Pray4Isrel said this in Post #23
LOL! Very clever
"If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me." - Jewish Carpenter from Nazareth continued
"All right! Now that Joseph's kid has left town, I got that big crucifix contract from the Romans!" - Other Jewish Carpenter from Nazareth continued.
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