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[Anonymous No.6860053]

What are the greatest philosophical quotes of all time?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6860059]

>>6860053
Subjective

[Anonymous No.6860064]

Is that Camü or C. Hitchens?

[Anonymous No.6860066]

"I suck dick" - O 'O.P.' Pee

[Anonymous No.6860071]

>>6860059
What are the greatest philosophical quotes of all time- according to you?

[Anonymous No.6860072]

"Baby wants to fuck."

-Frank Booth

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>>6860071
Alright alright.

[Anonymous No.6860144]

I thought Hirsi Ali was Muslim?

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[Anonymous No.6860154]

>>6860091
good shit
>>6860149
dumb tbh

[Anonymous No.6860163]

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>>6860144
"Was" being the operative word.

[Anonymous No.6860180]

>>6860091
>>6860149
>>6860164
I get better quotes on my daily facebook feed.

[Anonymous No.6860183]

"[t]he specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy."

>>6860164
no

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6860188]

>>6860154
>dumb tbh
Like Meursault in prison was still free to be himself, or like the NEETs or homeless people who live free of work. Imperfect and rather uncomfortable freedom, but rebellious.

>>6860163
Oh stop it, Christfig

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>>6860183
>[N]o
You had an unhappy childhood or you don't think enthusiasm is a good thing?

>>6860180
Duel.

[Anonymous No.6860208]

God is le dead - nitch

[Anonymous No.6860241]

>>6860188
what about infertile or antinatalist people?

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>>6860241
We are one big family. I'm neither infertile nor antinatalist, but it hardly makes a difference to these three categories when there are children running around.

[Anonymous No.6860279]

>>6860072
HEINEKEN?
FUCK THAT SHIT

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[Anonymous No.6860292]

>>6860053
>Ricky Gervais

[Anonymous No.6860307]

>The secret of realising the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is" to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you cannot be rulers and owners you men of knowledge! The time will soon pass when you could be content to live concealed in the woods like timid dear!

[Anonymous No.6860312]

Personal quote wall:

"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."
-Diogenes

"No one adjusts to the desert--only lunatics and God. God was born in the desert."
-Peter O'Toole

"I have been everything, and it is worth nothing."
-Septimus

"I am tired of glory at twenty-nine; it has lost its charm; and there is nothing left for me but complete egotism."
-Napoleon, to his brother Joseph

MS: You have always been an advocate of the primacy of the aesthetic: "To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all," you have argued. Is it still possible in our post modern age to prioritize the aesthetic values of a work over the considerations of race, class and gender?
HB: In my view, all these ideologies have destroyed literary study in the graduate schools and in the academies. Whether you call it feminism, which is not really feminism, has nothing to do with equal rights for women, or whether you call it transgenderism, or ethnicity, or Marxism, or any of these French manifestations, be it deconstruction or one mode of differential linguistics or another, or whether you call it -- what I think is mislabeled -- the new historicism, because it's neither new nor historicism, but simply a dilution of Foucault, a man whom I knew and liked personally, but whose influence I think has been pernicious, just as Derida's, with whom I also shared a friendship until eventually we broke with each other. All these "isms" are preposterous of course; they have nothing to do with the study of literature or with its originality. As I've said before, the esthetic is an individual and not a social concern.
HB: As professors of literature, you and I are both fighting on the same side. We are fighting a rear guard action, my dear fellow. We lost the war. And when you have lost the war, all you can do is rally the remnants and put up a stand in which you and I and the remaining handful of us fight, people who believe in humanistic values and ultimately in the civilizing effect of the greatest literature. If the list helps people then I am all for it.

>>6860279
PABST
BLUE
RIBBON!

[Anonymous No.6860317]

DUDE ANARCHY LMAO

[Anonymous No.6860320]

“The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.” -- Aldous Huxley

[Anonymous No.6860322]

The Master said, "Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?

"Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?

"Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?"

[Anonymous No.6860334]

"This truth cannot be overemphasized: quote threads are the highest masterpieces of empty vanity, as every anon posts a quote in the thread hoping it will be appreciated, and not one anon actually reads the quotes." -- Arthur Schopenhauer

[Anonymous No.6860340]

>>6860163
>Atheist black man
I thought being overwhelmed by life trials and falling into despair was a white thing?

I don't understand blacks, both Christianity and Atheism are toys of white people; yet they stick with the religion their ancestors' masters forced on them. Personally I'd convert to Islam just to piss off white america lol

[Anonymous No.6860349]

>>6860340

lol

[Anonymous No.6860353]

"And even I can remember
A day when the historians left blanks in their writings,
I mean, for things they didn't know,
But that time seems to be passing.
A day when the historians left blanks in their writings,
But that time seems to be passing."

[Anonymous No.6860354]

>>6860053
>Christopher Hitchens doing his best Camus impersonation

lel what a smug bastard

[Belial !!aA0k1/YgCq9 No.6860366]

"Fear cannot be without hope, nor hope without fear" - Spinoza

Used in justifying the idea that emotions are more complex than realized (two emotions are triggered within what is seemingly one 'emotion' , typically with negative and positive simultaneously (for joy, sadness, and desire are the three emotions for Spinoza, everything else is a mixture) and that humans are hopelessly incapable of preventing such affectations; they may only be mitigated.

[Anonymous No.6860382]

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but move down into the green valleys of silliness." -Wittgenstein

[Anonymous No.6860386]

>>6860340

lol

[Anonymous No.6860418]

>>6860366
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[Anonymous No.6860423]

>>6860064
Hitchens cosplaying as Camus.

[Anonymous No.6860449]

>>6860340
my god you are ignorant. there are more Christians in Africa than people in the USA. it's a religion started by a brown Jew and adopted by Middle Easterners and Africans 100s of years before whites in north Europe converted en mass.

but you think christianity is a 'toy of white poeple?' LOL.

[Anonymous No.6860513]

>>6860334
im reading schropenhauer, im reading

[Anonymous No.6860520]

>>6860091
>>6860149
>>6860164
>>6860188
>>6860207
>>6860268
Holy shit, it's like I'm looking at some random cunt's facebook wall except without the selfies and long winded posts about politics she doesn't understand

[Anonymous No.6860547]

>>6860053
Hitchens is tantalizingly edgy there

[Anonymous No.6860555]

Is that asap rocky on the right?

[Anonymous No.6860599]

>>6860307

"A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything."

[Anonymous No.6860628]

"When life gives you lemons!' --Franz Kafka, 3rd February 1903

[Anonymous No.6860666]

>>6860053
bill most punchable face

[Anonymous No.6860711]

>>6860555
You're joking right?

[Anonymous No.6860712]

>>6860053
What's the point of these quotes though? You'll look at them, think to yourself "Oh that's nice" and move on. Not to mention even if you are 'inspired' by them no one really embodies those values like >>6860164
The fuck does 'Never losing your Enthusiasm' entail? So meaningless and shitty.

[Anonymous No.6860719]

>>6860555
hahahahaahahahahahaha

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>>6860712
What's so hard to understand about it?
Do you think it's unwise to try and retain something of your younger self? Or are you this young already?
When people get old they lose their enthusiasm for life. I'm personally stuck in a rut in my life and want to go enjoy it while I'm young enough, and before the health problems multiply.
It's simple advice.

How about this one?

[Anonymous No.6860736]

>>6860340
lol haha

[Anonymous No.6860793]

>>6860555
Holy shit

[Anonymous No.6860808]

>>6860418
You redditors are just as bad as tripfags

[Anonymous No.6860818]

b8 post

[Anonymous No.6860825]

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[Anonymous No.6860833]

>>6860825
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tbh

[Anonymous No.6860834]

>thinking you will ever get a serious answer off of lit

[Anonymous No.6860851]

>>6860825
>image.jpg

[Anonymous No.6860861]

>>6860340
>advises blacks to leave Christianity because Christians used to own African slaves
>suggests they convert to Islam

[Anonymous No.6860875]

One of the reasons I love Hegel is that he is unquotable. You need at least a paragraph to make him intelligible.

[Anonymous No.6860883]

>>6860163
is this real?

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[Anonymous No.6860992]

>>6860875
>When philosophy paints its gloomy picture then a form of life has grown old. It cannot be rejuvenated by the gloomy picture, but only understood. Only when the dusk starts to fall does the owl of Minerva spread its wings and fly.

[Anonymous No.6861007]

Does banter between philosophers count?
>M. Proudhon has the misfortune of being particularly misunderstood in Europe. In France, he has the right to be a bad economist, because he is reputed to be a good German philosopher. In Germany, he has the right to be a bad philosopher, because he is reputed to be one of the ablest of French economists. Being both a German and an economist at the same time, we desire to protest against this double error...

[Anonymous No.6861107]

>>6860555
That pretty mothafucka.

[Anonymous No.6861264]

>>6860144

No, just a person who makes money off of people hating them.

[Anonymous No.6861429]

>>6860732
Read Seneca's first letter on decisive reading. A quote without context or the prefaced logic is the fast food of philosophy.

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>>6861429
Why aren't you addressing the OP?

[Anonymous No.6861615]

>>6861590
But that's not even true, Darwin himself writes that it's whoever is best able to reproduce and create viable offspring that are then able to accomplish the same goal.
Later in this life he even expanded upon this to focus on female choice in the process of sexual selection, meaning it's the individuals best able to impress females that are the most able to survive in evolutionary terms.

[Anonymous No.6861630]

>>6860340
So they should convert to paganism and worshipping stones like their anchestors lol

[Anonymous No.6861648]

>>6861615
Evolution doesn't explain everything.

The Lost World has Ian Malcolm ramble on for a while explaining why.

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