Your Favourite Philosophy Quote

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  1. Lemming3k Insanity Gone Mad Registered Senior Member

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    It is much better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
     
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  3. Theoryofrelativity Banned Banned

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    I love this quote!
     
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  5. River Ape Valued Senior Member

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    He who laughs last gets kicked by the people waiting for the next joke.

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  7. seekeroftheway Let go your conscious self... Registered Senior Member

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    That last one strikes me as a douglas adams quote...
     
  8. Satyr Banned Banned

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    “What doesn’t kill me can ….hurt me pretty bad.”
     
  9. seekeroftheway Let go your conscious self... Registered Senior Member

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    I'm a geek, so all the following quotes are from sci fi movies I like...


    "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." -Morpheus, The Matrix

    "Do not try to bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth."
    "What Truth?"
    "There is no spoon." - Neo and child, Oracle's waiting room, The Matrix

    "Your eyes deceive you, don't trust them. Let go your conscious self, and act on instinct." - Ben Kenobi, Millennium Falcon, Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope.


    Although these quotes are all theatrically derived, I find them easily applied to reality. I'll get more, I have a buttload of favorite philosophical quotes...
     
  10. seekeroftheway Let go your conscious self... Registered Senior Member

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    Ah yes....

    "Silence is Deafening" - Anonymous Taoist Philosopher

    "Aim at nothing and you'll never miss." - My Friend Jasmine.
     
  11. Hapsburg Hellenistic polytheist Valued Senior Member

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    "Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great."
    -Oscar Wilde. Taken from uncyclopedia.

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  12. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    "A clever monkey, does not monkey around with another monkeys monkey!"

    From a poster on a wall ... somewhere ... sometime.
     
  13. water the sea Registered Senior Member

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    And it took a clever monkey to write that.
     
  14. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    If the world was of peace, would you want peace?
     
  15. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    If you think about something long enough, you will eventually get depressed. - Silas Owens, and possibly another.
     
  16. Anomalous Banned Banned

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    Opportunities obvious to me are oblivious for humans !
     
  17. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    "If we could see further, it`s because we put our specs on"

    Now I forget exactly who said that.
     
  18. Hapsburg Hellenistic polytheist Valued Senior Member

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    "Why?"
     
  19. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    Google.
     
  20. Rosnet Philomorpher Registered Senior Member

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    "What has happened has happened and could not have happened any other way."

    -Morpheus, The Matrix (Reloaded?)
     
  21. Anomalous Banned Banned

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    Yes it could have happened very well the other way round if your views were different before U let it happen.
     
  22. Rosnet Philomorpher Registered Senior Member

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    Aha! But you couldn't have had different views either, because you too are part of the system. Determinism, you know.
     
  23. Anomalous Banned Banned

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    U could if U had an open mind.
     

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