Philosophy Quotes

[Reefer Rogue]

There's a lot of them, i'll start us off with a good one from Socrates:

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Reefer Rogue Reviewed by Reefer Rogue on 08-30-2007. Philosophy Quotes There's a lot of them, i'll start us off with a good one from Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living." Rating: 5

[Mr. Bubbles]

Bertrand Russell: Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.



Cicero:
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.



Freda Adler:
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.



George Bernard Shaw:
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.






H. L. Mencken: Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

Immanuel Kant:
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.



Mark Twain:
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

1908, notebook

[rocktheganj]

nice.

i like this one, not cause its from yoda, but cause its pretty cool:

do or do not, there is no try -yoda

[gravity420]

if ya smell something funky, its probably me, because I am THE SHIT!

[Reefer Rogue]

To know oneself, one must assert oneself. - Albert Camus

[afghooey]

"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." -- Alan Watts

"Camus said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosophical questions:
The first one is: Who started it?
The second is: Are we going to make it?
The third is: Where are we going to put it?
The fourth is: Who's going to clean up?
And the fifth: Is it serious?"
-- Alan Watts

"All that is transient is but a symbol." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Reefer Rogue]

Man is what he believes - Anton Chekov

[slipknotpsycho]

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
BJ Palmer

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppresser.
Jane Elliot

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov

[Reefer Rogue]

Man freely believe that which they desire. - Ceasar

[Coelho]

"Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. Any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. "

"All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you."

don Juan Matus - The Teachings of Don Juan

"What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd get would be a true gift. To be poor or wanting is only a thought"

"The countless paths one traverses in one's life are all equal. Oppressors and oppressed meet at the end, and the only thing that prevails is that life was altogether too short for both."

"The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is. If we stop telling ourselves that the world is so-and-so, the world will stop being so-and-so. "

don Juan Matus - A Separate Reality

"If you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. And above all no one pins you down with their thoughts. It is best to erase all personal history because that makes us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people. "

"Death is the only wise adviser that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, "I haven't touched you yet." "

"When a man decides to do something he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
To assume the responsibility of one's decisions means that one is ready to die for them. It doesn't matter what the decision is. Nothing could be more or less serious than anything else. In a world where death is the hunter there are no small or big decisions. There are only decisions that we make in the face of our inevitable death."

"People tell us from the time we are born that the world is such and such and so and so, and naturally we have no choice but to see the world the way people have been telling us it is. "

don Juan Matus - Journey to Ixtlan

"Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we have enough of it, one word uttered to us might be sufficient to change the course of our lives. But if we don't have enough personal power, the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won't make a damn bit of difference."

"Things are real only after one has learned to agree on their realness."

"Solace, haven, fear, all of them are moods that you have learned without ever questioning their value."

"Any thought that one holds in mind in a state of silence is properly a command, since there are no other thoughts to compete with it."

"(...)the real experience is to be a man, and that what counts is being alive; life is the little detour that we are taking now. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. "

"There's no future. The future is only a way of talking. For a sorcerer there is only the here and now."

"When we think we decide, all we're doing is acknowledging that something beyond our understanding has set up the frame of our so-called decision, and all we do is to acquiesce."

don Juan Matus - Tales of Power

" When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to."

don Juan Matus - The Second Ring of Power


Yes... im a fan of Don Juan, as you may have noted...