Your Favourite Philosophy Quote

Discussion in 'General Philosophy' started by RickyH, Feb 20, 2006.

  1. cole grey Hi Valued Senior Member

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    I ask that every time I post.
     
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  3. Hapsburg Hellenistic polytheist Valued Senior Member

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    The question "why" is essentially the ultimate, the first, and the greatest philosophical quote because it embodies philosophy in and of itself. If we never asked "why does this work", "why is the sky blue", "why do birds fly and we don't", "why do I die if that red stuff comes out", and other such questions, we wouldn't know the answers. We would not have the knowledge that our species so lustily cares for and seeks after.
     
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  5. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    What was the first langauge, to use a word with the meaning "what"?
     
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  7. Hapsburg Hellenistic polytheist Valued Senior Member

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    Probably whatever the hell cavemen spoke. They probably just made a quizzical gruntng sound, which evolved into "wuh", "what", and the modern day "What the fuck?".
    If not that, it was probably Sumerian.
     
  8. rahul_sharma Registered Senior Member

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    There are so many favourite Quotes but i love this one most by Will Durant:
    India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with India....This is the India that patient scholarship is now opening up like a new intellectual continent to that Western mind which only yesterday thought civilization an exclusive Western thing.

    :m: After reading Quotes of innumerous scientists and intellectuals of the world about Hinduism and India, now i feel Will Durant was so right. :m:
     
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  9. Odin2006 Democratic Socialist Registered Senior Member

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    "There are only 2 things that are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

    Albert Einstein
     
  10. houseofknowledge house of knowledge Registered Senior Member

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    "I think therefore I am"
    -Decartes
     
  11. Zephyr Humans are ONE Registered Senior Member

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    "Oh great philospher, have you solved the problem of procrastination?"
    "Tomorrow, my student. I'm busy checking my email."
     
  12. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    I'm pretty sure that's Douglas Adams from the Hitchhiker's Guide.

    Sorry Graham, those quotes are old. Still good ones though.

    Here's one of my favorites:
    "Beer: the cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems."
    -Homer J. Simpson
     
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  13. Killjoy Propelling The Farce!! Valued Senior Member

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    Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

    There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

    To be truthful means using the customary metaphors
    - in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention.


    - Herr Doktor Professor Wilhelm Friedrich Nietzsche
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  14. Tnerb Banned Banned

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    Killjoy, these things themselfs are even dispensable. We shouldn't dwell on the bad either. We have to clear our minds. I can't stand when someone quotes some of nietzsche's quotes showing the prejudices of other people
     
  15. Killjoy Propelling The Farce!! Valued Senior Member

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    You're engaging your fingers before your brain's in gear again...

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  16. Carcano Valued Senior Member

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    Indeed I am a forrest and a night of dark trees
    But those who can stand my darkness
    Will also find rose covered slopes under my cypresses
    And the little God whom girls love best
    There he lies beside the well
    With his eyes shut still

    -Nietzsche
     
  17. Carcano Valued Senior Member

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    Nothing of great value was ever found in a crowd.

    -Voltaire
     
  18. Cyperium I'm always me Valued Senior Member

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    That quotation was from the hitch-hikers guide to the universe.
     
  19. Jaster Mereel Hostis Humani Generis Registered Senior Member

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    I hate it when people quote philosophy in a philosophical discussion, as if philosophy is a field filled with experts. Bah! If you don't have your own ideas, don't bother, I say. I always get into these bouts with my girlfriend, who insists on giving me something from Aristotle or Plato (she's very Catholic, and Catholics don't like any philosophers but the Greeks, so it's limited at that). The argument usually consists of me trying to get what she thinks on the subject out of her, but she has chosen to differ to some imaginary authority. So frustrating!
     
  20. I don't know It's the pun police, run! Registered Senior Member

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    "If I am blind, need you strike a blind man across the face?"
    - Denis Diderot
     
  21. riku_124 High School Smoker Registered Senior Member

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    my favrite philosaphy is ether "beuty is in the eye of the beholder" or else its "treat others as youd like to be treater"

    I think both qoutes have become very rarly used in daily life now-a-days
     
  22. Images Are Decieving Registered Member

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    "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."

    -- G. H. Hardy
     
  23. Dravyga ... Registered Senior Member

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    "If you draw your sword, expect to draw some blood"

    and

    "You reap what you sow"
     

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