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If you had to choose a mantra, a single statement of philosophic intent that describes how you wish to live your life or how you view life, what would it be? It can be a quote or a personal statement.

>> No.2703205

sage

>> No.2703207

>>2703205

I honestly don't know if this is a self-aware response, or an actual sage.

>> No.2703210

See the cat? See the cradle?

>> No.2703211
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2703211

I'm a fatalistic solipsist who also believes in the christian god.

>> No.2703212

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo.

>> No.2703213

>>2703210

Good line.

>> No.2703216

If I'm here to be ordinary, why don't I just kill myself and skip to the end?

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>>2703211
Oh, wow.

>> No.2703220

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

>> No.2703222 [DELETED] 

Miracles are accidents with positive outcomes. That will either be inspiration or depressing, depending on your total outlook.

>> No.2703226

Miracles are just accidents with positive outcomes. That will either be inspirational or depressing, depending on your total outlook.

>> No.2703227

That which is false and bad is called religion. That which is false and good is called art. That which is true and bad is called truth. That which is true and good does not exist.

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>> No.2703231

"I seriously hope you guys don't do this."
-George Constanza

>> No.2703232

Whenever I get off an airplane I think "Damn, another failed suicide attempt..."

Seriously, FUCK PLANES AND FUCK THE ARMY FOR MAKING ME FLY ON THEM TO GO PLACES

>> No.2703242
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2703242

>Everything is vanity, everything vanishes

>> No.2703249

Humility is the most important thing a person can have.

>> No.2703253

>>2703249

Would the counterbalancing point of that be that pride is the most dangerous thing a person can have/

>> No.2703255

This, too, shall pass.

>> No.2703268

You.

Are.

Awesome.

Now start fucking acting like it.

>> No.2703271

>>2703253

No, just the least important.

>> No.2703272

>>2703212
I wanted to post some Epicurean shit. Oh well.

I guess I'll just post quotes from cartoons.

"We can't concern ourselves with what was; we must act on what is."

"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame."

>> No.2703277

He who humbles himself is merely wishing to be exalted

>> No.2703279

Unrequited love is for chumps.

And I'm the biggest chump of them all.

>> No.2703287

So it goes.

>> No.2703285
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2703285

Current Wallpaper

>> No.2703290
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2703290

"Respect is earned"

>> No.2703296

>>2703279

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,
And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!

-William S. Gilbert

>> No.2703297

>>2703290
It sure is, buddy.

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>>2703285

Ah, you just reminded me that my current wallpaper also reflects some philosophic intent of mine.

>> No.2703305

I waited since the beginning of time to exist and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

>> No.2703308

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

>> No.2703310

>>2703287
I know a dude who browses /lit/ who uses that phrase (in exactly its expected context) constantly, while claiming never to have read Vonnegut. I don't know how he does it.

>> No.2703354

Aph. 341 The greatest weight.—What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"

Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: "You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine." If this thought gained possession of you, it would change you as you are or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, "Do you desire this once more and innumerable times more?" would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?

>> No.2703369

>>2703354

Fuck you and fuck Nietzsche

>> No.2703409

>>2703369
Meh. I don't really like Nietzsche, but I find that quote tends to motivate me for some reason.

>> No.2703416

>>2703308
what is this from?

>> No.2703415

>>2703285
Lil' Jon, he always tells the truth.

>> No.2703425

>>2703416
Invictus.
Google, fuckin miracles, maaan >.>

>> No.2705792

if it is cynical/pessimistic then it is shallow and only appears to be truth on the surface.

tl;dr fuck all the bullshit you kids believe

>> No.2705813

Nothing to be done.

>> No.2705867

>a single statement of philosophic intent that describes how you wish to live your life or how you view life

THAT SEEMS FUTILE, "POINTLESS", AND ABSURD.

>> No.2705917

Show, don't tell.

>> No.2705932

Above all else, be armed.

>> No.2705942
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2705942

If it had to be short, I'd pick "It's all good."

However if I could be longer, then I'd have to say the beginning of Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan.

Pic related it's my current wallpaper

>> No.2705950

"Be A Light Unto Yourself"