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“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” -Euripides
“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.” -Immanuel Kant
“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” -Socrates
“Education is an ornament in prosperity & a refuge in adversity.” -Aristotle
 
Matt Foley said:
Is this what people aspire to?



How 300 B.C.
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You completely ignored the point of this thread to troll.

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
other way around in your case.
 
“There are no facts, only interpretations.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
“The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval." - Peter Singer

"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" - Epicurus

"Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!” - Friedrich Nietzsche

""I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... Behold, I teach you the overman. The overman is the meaning of the earth.Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go." - Nietzsche

"The point is there ain't no point" - Cormac McCarthy

“I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.” - John Fowles
 
"Alone is the essence of self; struggle with it rather then against it." - unknown

"Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe.
But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help in the greatest of all causes
-- goodwill among men and peace on earth." - Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Einstein

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Einstein

"I want to know God's thoughts,..... the rest are details.." - Einstein

Albert Einstein Quotes
 
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. - Kant
 
There's so many I can't remember. It would probably be impossible to narrow down the favorite.
 
Indeed said:
You completely ignored the point of this thread to troll.

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
other way around in your case.
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"Philosophy is for the sub-educated." -Me
 
Matt Foley said:
"Philosophy is for the sub-educated." -Me
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Then why are you trolling around in the Philosophy threads?
Studying philosophy is a way of educating one's self. Sub-educated compared to what? Compared to you? If so, than you are the most arrogant douche I have ever had the displeasure to speak to.

"Only a fool wishes not to learn, or refuses to learn." Forgot who said that.

Either post something deep and meaningful or gtfo.
 
When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb

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Indeed said:
Then why are you trolling around in the Philosophy threads?
Studying philosophy is a way of educating one's self. Sub-educated compared to what? Compared to you? If so, than you are the most arrogant douche I have ever had the displeasure to speak to.

"Only a fool wishes not to learn, or refuses to learn." Forgot who said that.

Either post something deep and meaningful or gtfo.
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"One-liner sparring is lame." -me
 
"I fart. Therefore i am." (bean growers of central california)
 
"Je pense donc je suis" - Descartes (in its original french, most are more familiar with the english "I think therefore I am", or the latin "Cogito ergo sum")

granted there is a possibility that the thing that is thinking is not <me> so the "Je " part of the statement was an assumption on Descartes part; however something is thinking. I like it because it brings our entire existence down to a basal level and provides perspective.
 
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marduc said:
"Je pense donc je suis" - Descartes (in its original french, most are more familiar with the english "I think therefore I am", or the latin "Cogito ergo sum")

granted there is a possibility that the thing that is thinking is not <me> so the "Je " part of the statement was an assumption on Descartes part; however something is thinking. I like it because it brings our entire existence down to a basal level and provides perspective.
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Solipsism at its finest (and only really)!
 
"There is nothing so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength." - Frances de Sales
 
"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
Epictetus.
 
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” - Machiavelli

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” - Machiavelli

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ” - Machiavelli
 
Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resounding bells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane - Robert Hunter
 
Mach said:
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” - Machiavelli

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” - Machiavelli

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ” - Machiavelli
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That is a fantastic quote. Thanks.
 
My high is always reflective, peaceable, intellectually exciting, and sociable, unlike most alcohol highs, and there is never a hangover. Carl Sagan
 
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