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Socrates
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Epictetus
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Niccol Machiavelli
Michel de Montaigne
Baltasar Gracin
Baruch Spinoza
Franois Fnelon
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Samuel Johnson
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Laurence Sterne
Immanuel Kant
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Andrew Jackson
Napolon Bonaparte
William Wordsworth
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Heinrich von Kleist
Arthur Schopenhauer
Thomas Carlyle
Eugne Delacroix
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexis de Tocqueville
John Stuart Mill
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Sren Kierkegaard
Henry David Thoreau
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
James Hinton
James Fitzjames Stephen
Joseph Delboeuf
Henry George
William H. Crogman
William James
Friedrich Nietzsche
James Terry White
Wilhelm Windelband
Elbert Hubbard
Sigmund Freud
George Bernard Shaw
Theodore Roosevelt
Henri Bergson
Jane Addams
L.P. Jacks
Alfred North Whitehead
Henry Ford
William George Jordan
Lev Shestov
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Andr Gide
Marcel Proust
Carl Jung
Albert Einstein
John Middleton Murry
Martin Heidegger
H.P. Lovecraft
Aldous Huxley
Buckminster Fuller
Jean-Paul Sartre
Loren Eiseley
Robert A. Heinlein
Albert Camus
Alan Watts
Arthur C. Clarke
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ernest Becker
Martin Luther King Jr.
Donald James
Umberto Eco
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Steven Weinberg
Derek Parfit
Terence McKenna
David Graeber
Henry Rollins
Mark Twight
James Geary
Jordan Peterson
Sam Harris
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Napoleon Dynamite and Hank Hill
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List doesn't contain trump
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Forgettable posted...

Camus x2

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a manOne must live with time and die with it or else elude it for a greater life.
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Freud and Lovecraft.
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LightningAce11 posted...

Freud and Lovecraft.

Freud: A failure makes one inventive, creates a free flow of associations, brings idea after idea, whereas once success is there a certain narrow-mindedness or thick-headedness sets in so that one always keeps coming back to what has already been established but can make no new combinations.

Lovecraft: The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage farSome day the piercing together of disassociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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Andrew Jackson
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Do Hitler next!
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SimpleMan posted...

Andrew Jackson
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Jackson: If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution by morning. (there is a slight chance this is misattributed)

Solzhenitsyn: Do not pursue what is illusory property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life dont be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesnt last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
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lovecraft and dr. lobster
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Freddie_Mercury posted...

lovecraft and dr. lobster

Lovecraft: Pleasure to me is wonder the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.

Dr. Lobster, roughly speaking: Acceptance of anomalous information brings terror and possibility, revolution and transformation. Rejection of unbearable fact stifles adaptation, and strangles life. We choose one path or another at every decision point in our lives, and emerge as the sum total of our choices. In rejecting our errors, we gain short-term security but throw away our identity with the process that allows us to transcend our weaknesses, and tolerate our painfully limited lives.
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NES4EVER posted...

List doesn't contain trump

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Anyone else run down the list and counted who was in Bill & Ted?

Bump
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Final bump
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Kierkegaardand & Freud
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Kierkegaardand & Freud

Kierkegaard: Do not permit the fact that you have been set apart from life in a way, been prevented from participating actively in it, and that you are superfluous in the obtruse eyes of a busy world, above all, do not permit this to deprive you of your idea of yourself, as if your life, if lived in inwardness, did not have just as much meaning and worth as that of any human being in the eyes of all-wise governance, and considerably more than the busy, busiest haste of busyness busy with wasting life and losing itself.

Freud: No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human communityProfessional activity is a source of special satisfaction if it is a freely chosen oneyet, as a path to happiness, work is not highly prized by men. They do not strive after it as they do after other possibilities of satisfaction. The great majority of people only work under the stress of necessity, and this natural human aversion to work raises most difficult social problems.
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Freud and Peterson

Nietzsche and Teddy Roosevelt.
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Mareen posted...

Freud and Peterson

Freud: He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Peterson: If you want security you might as well be deadTo be alive is to be contending with the world and you want to be the best at that that you could possibly be.
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jumi posted...

Nietzsche and Teddy Roosevelt.

Nietzsche: At bottom, every human being knows very well that he is in this world just once, as something unique, and that no accident, however strange, will throw together a second time into a unity such a curious and diffuse plurality: he knows it, but hides it like a bad conscience.

Roosevelt: A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fiber of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courageWe are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
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Whitehead please
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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Whitehead please

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.
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