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"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own."

-Epicetus

I drank what?

Socrates

Real Genius ftw

Dont tell me what I cant do. - John Locke

"If you need INSTRUCTIONS on how to get through the hotel, check out THE ENCLOSED INSTRUCTION BOOK"

-Hotel Mario

my favorite quote is the one by Aristotle where he says if you only live to take shits you will have a bad life

Behold, a man! - Diogenes

"Why study philosophy? Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good." - Bertrand Russell

Russell is quotable as fuck

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

life is just a trip from the maternity ward to the crematorium

It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in.

-Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)

I have yet to meet the man who is as fond of virtue as he is of beauty in women.
-Confucius

If we hit that bullseye the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate. - Polygamy

The stone is given its existence; it need not fight for being what it isa stone in the field.
Man has to be himself in spite of unfavorable circumstances; that means he has to make his own existence at every single moment. He is given the abstract possibility of existing, but not the reality. This he has to conquer hour after hour. Man must earn his life, not only economically but metaphysically.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

He is under read. I heavily recommend The Revolt of the Masses as well as Meditations on Hunting.

I will pair it with a good one from Heidegger.

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

It's from a fictional character, but this one really resonated with me:

"Orolo said that the more he knew of the complexity of the mind, and the cosmos with which it was inextricably and mysteriously bound up, the more inclined he was to see it as a miracle - not in quite the same sense that our Deolaters use the term, for he considered it altogether natural. He meant rather that the evolution of our minds from bits of inanimate matter was more beautiful and more extraordinary than any of the miracles cataloged down through the ages by the religions of our world. And so he had an instinctive skepticism of any system of thought that pretended to encompass that miracle, and in so doing sought to draw limits around it." - Fraa Paphlagon, Anathem

"Hehehe, I farted."

Trumble posted...

"Hehehe, I farted."

I can't remember, was that Beavis, or Butthead?

BewmHedshot posted...

It's from a fictional character, but this one really resonated with me:

"Orolo said that the more he knew of the complexity of the mind, and the cosmos with which it was inextricably and mysteriously bound up, the more inclined he was to see it as a miracle - not in quite the same sense that our Deolaters use the term, for he considered it altogether natural. He meant rather that the evolution of our minds from bits of inanimate matter was more beautiful and more extraordinary than any of the miracles cataloged down through the ages by the religions of our world. And so he had an instinctive skepticism of any system of thought that pretended to encompass that miracle, and in so doing sought to draw limits around it." - Fraa Paphlagon, Anathem

Makes no sense. Claiming something as a miracle and then claiming that its entirely natural is nonsensical.

Go home and be a family man.

-Guile

Did you know that we too left civilization behind? The scribblers were closing in on all sides, you see. The clerks with their purple tongues and darting eyes, their shuffling feet and sloped shoulders, their bloodless lists. Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering! Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?

~ Shadowthrone

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole Universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the Universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terrorThen I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

- Blaise Pascal

A purpose, an intention, a design, is evident in everything; and when our comprehension is so far enlarged as to contemplate the first rise of this visible system, we must adopt, with the strongest conviction, the idea of some intelligent cause or authorEven the contrarieties of nature, by discovering themselves everywhere, become proofs of some consistent plan, and establish one single purpose or intention, however inexplicable and incomprehensible.

- David Hume

In endless space countless luminous spheres, round each of which some dozen smaller illuminated ones revolve, hot at the core and covered over with a hard cold crust; on this crust a mouldy film has produced living and knowing beings: this is empirical truth, the real, the world. Yet for a being who thinks, it is a precarious position to stand on one of those numberless spheres freely floating in boundless space, without knowing whence or whither, and to be only one of innumerable similar beings that throng, press, and toil, restlessly and rapidly arising and passing away in beginningless and endless time.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

If anything in the world is desirableit is that a ray of light should fall on the obscurity of our existence, and that we should obtain some information about this enigmatical life of ours, in which nothing is clear except its misery and vanityThe whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it, and the correctness of this is confirmed by the continuity and connection that appear everywhere. If only this whole is grasped in sufficient depth, and inner experience is connected to outer, it must be capable of being interpreted, explained from itself.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Man is a mystery. One must solve it. If you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery because I want to be a man.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"And the Queen of England has made the jump into hyperspace, and it's now Bye Bye Time." ~Alex Jones

"The most horrible thing about death is how it turns a person into a thing. It's a thing that looks like your friend, but it's not them anymore. Just this strange, cold shell, and every time you look at it you feel a little of that coldness creeping in around the edges of your soul."

I felt this and I luckily have never seen a dead body of a family member or friend but this said it really well and it gave me chills in the context of the scene.

it's from zero escape virtues last reward

All we are, is dust in the wind, dude.

Dust.
Wind.
Dude.

"Hell is other people"

• Jean Paul Sartre