anybody got a favorite philosopher's quote?
anybody got a favorite philosopher?
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Ace Bandage
The one and only.
Yes, I believe his name is Philosoraptor
bobjustbob
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Yogi Berra. "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, take It."
Confucius:
Man who stand on toilet seat, high on pot.
Man who stand on toilet seat, high on pot.
“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
xfire
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Many to choose from, here's one of my favorites from Aristotle;
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
And from that you can extrapolate all matter of virtue and vice, i.e., a person can do an act of good, but that act doesn't then make that person good, rather merely a person that did a good thing. However, a person that falls into the habit of doing good things is becoming a good person. Conversely, a person that does a bad thing, isn't by necessity a bad person, but a person that did a bad thing, and if that person continues to do bad things, that person is becoming a bad person. I like the concept of repeated actions being the stick from which we are measured.
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
And from that you can extrapolate all matter of virtue and vice, i.e., a person can do an act of good, but that act doesn't then make that person good, rather merely a person that did a good thing. However, a person that falls into the habit of doing good things is becoming a good person. Conversely, a person that does a bad thing, isn't by necessity a bad person, but a person that did a bad thing, and if that person continues to do bad things, that person is becoming a bad person. I like the concept of repeated actions being the stick from which we are measured.
Mayhem
Banned
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
"All you need is Love" - John Lennon
"Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb." - Freddy Mercury
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
"All you need is Love" - John Lennon
"Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb." - Freddy Mercury
Mayhem
Banned
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." - Benjamin Franklin
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." - Benjamin Franklin
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
I have no idea who originally said many of the quotes that stick in my mind.
"Huntin' ain't no fun when the rabbit got a gun." - Unknown
"Life is short... just drive." - Unknown
"Live life to the fullest... it's later than you think." - Unknown
"The last thing I want to do is hurt you... but it's still on the list." - Unknown (but I'll claim it)
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And the real ones:
"Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be." – Thomas Jefferson
“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." - John Kenneth Galbraith
"Huntin' ain't no fun when the rabbit got a gun." - Unknown
"Life is short... just drive." - Unknown
"Live life to the fullest... it's later than you think." - Unknown
"The last thing I want to do is hurt you... but it's still on the list." - Unknown (but I'll claim it)
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And the real ones:
"Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be." – Thomas Jefferson
“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." - John Kenneth Galbraith
Little Red Wagon Repairman
MFOMBSoPGA
http://jamesaquilone.com/101-greatest-george-carlin-quotes/
"You can’t fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up."
"You can’t fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up."
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