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8851455 No.8851455 [Reply] [Original]

What's the most useful sentence you've ever read?

>Reactionary chess is losing chess.

>> No.8851462

>>8851455
Huh, opposite strategy of Super Smash Bros.

>> No.8851465

fear is the mind killer

>> No.8851468

>>8851455
who are you quoting

>> No.8851471

>>8851455
Only one enemy remained. Two, if you counted God.

>> No.8851474

Only a sith deals in absolutes

>> No.8851475

>>8851468

Jeremy Silman

>>8851471

pls no memes

>> No.8851479

>>8851455
dumb phoneposter

>> No.8851487

>>8851475
>Jeremy Silman
Shame, I was hoping it would be commie propaganda from Botvinnik or Kotov.

>> No.8851488

>>8851479

Not a phoneposter, using a laptop on hotel wifi.

>> No.8851516

im gay

>> No.8851772

>>8851474
I appreciate this

>> No.8851800

CRASH! mom made pancakes

>> No.8851931 [SPOILER] 
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8851931

>>8851455
>It's not the size of the dog in the fight.
>It's the size of the fight in the dog

>> No.8851936

>>8851455

Better to reign in hell then serve in heaven

>> No.8851946

>>8851474
that's an absolute statement tho

>> No.8851972

>>8851455
>Leave off from wrath and let go displeasure. Fret not thyself, else thous shalt be moved to do evil.

>Attend the beam in thine own eye before attending to the mote in thy neighbor's eye.

>> No.8851977

>>8851946
looks like you're a sith

>> No.8852018

>>8851936
>not simply Non serviam

Latinitatem stulte careris. Miltonum tui puderet.

>> No.8852029

>>8851972
you sound like an asshole

>> No.8852077

>>8851977
rip

>> No.8852088

>>8851931
found the manlet

>> No.8852089

>I’d somehow chosen to cast my lot with my life’s drama’s supposed audience instead of with the drama itself

>> No.8852097

>>8851455
Library of congress, minus the periods. Might be a run-on, but it's technically a sentence.

>> No.8852099

>>8851471
Holy... I want more...

>> No.8852877

>>8851455
Similar quote by Niels Bohr:
>You're not thinking, you're just being logical.

The funny thing is I found this quote in a chess book, too.

>> No.8852963

Pornhub has a substandard hentai collection.

>> No.8852968

>>8852963
I like checking out the 3d shit they have

>> No.8852977

>As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being
Jung
>He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
Nietzsche

>> No.8853031

>>8852968
Why?

>> No.8853035

Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.

>> No.8853042

>>8853031
Idk, 3d fetish I guess

>> No.8853046

>>8851972

>Attend the beam in thine own eye before attending to the mote in thy neighbor's eye.

I think this is one of the most ridiculous metaphors of all time. I've been told it's supposed to signify that you should take care of your own faults before faulting others (let he who is without sin yadda yadda), but honestly, having beams or specks in your eyes sounds like you're in terrible pain and misfortune, meaning that the metaphor becomes something more along the lines of don't help others, help yourself.

>> No.8853093

About compatibilism:

> Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills

>> No.8853133

>>8853093
that's Schopenhauer arguing for strong determinism. It's not saying "Man can do what we describe as 'doing what you want', but he is set in that path" it's saying "Our will is predetermined, and as we act after it, so are our actions"