Favourite Philosophical quotes?

[Microphotometrically]

I'm just curious as to what philosophical quotes you guys think are most interesting to you. Or if you have come up with any ideas yourself.

Mine is a buddhist proverb that sounds like something Bruce Lee would say to Chuck Norris.

"When the student is ready, the master appears"

[Denial]

My favorite quote is from Voltaire, but don't read into my meaning too much; I just like the quote.

"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

[want2befree13]

you can kill 2 birds with one stone

[decemberunderground23]

My favorite is by a band, HIM, written by Ville Valo.

"There is no smile of the angel, without the wrath of God."

Or one said by the great Yoda

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."

[Phlintlock]

I don't think suffering was in that quote, I do believe it's "And hate leads to the dark side."

[decemberunderground23]

I don't think suffering was in that quote, I do believe it's "And hate leads to the dark side."

Man
are we gonna have to watch the movie to figure this out?

[Phlintlock]

No, just trust the fact that I'm fucking right ok?

ALSO, I MUST ADD, YODA IS COOL.

[Denial]

The internet to ze rescue.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0120915/quotes

Anakin: What has that got to do with anything?
Yoda: Everything! Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.
(Just do a ctrl+f for it if you feel the need.)

[Phlintlock]

Oh right, I forgot you people watched the lame version of star wars. I watched my version, complete with cleaning up the death star montage and a cabaret with the entire rebel squadron.

Also I'm still pretty sure he said what I said he said. Because I used/parodied that quote alot.

[decemberunderground23]

The internet to ze rescue.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0120915/quotes

(Just do a ctrl+f for it if you feel the need.)

thank you Denial.

Phlint you just mad because Denial proved you wrong.

[Phlintlock]

I am adamant in my belief that I am right.

[decemberunderground23]

I am adamant in my belief that I am right.


psh whatever.

[Hacky]

Sigmund Freud

One is very crazy when in love.

[The muffin man]

"You can't just go and compute the answer to everything! We'll lose our jobs!"

-The philosophers from The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[Phlintlock]

THEY TOOK URR JBSS!!!!

[Inactive Cargo]

"This book is right. If you do not believe it and do not pay thousands of dollars of donations to the Vatican, you are wrong and going to burn in a hell which doesn't exist but let's pretend it does, OK?" -- Bible

[cassos]

Instead of giving your comrads if you get caught for something, by the teacher or the cops, give them a Montesquieu (first philosopher that thought of ending death sentence) :

Si je savais quelque chose qui fût bon pour ma patrie mais ruineuse à une autre, je ne la dirai pas à mon prince car je suis un Homme avant d'être français
Or, in english (french translated by a hungarian) :

If i knew something that would be good for my patry but that would be bad for another, i won't ever tell it to my prince, as i am a Man (he means human kind) before i am french

There is that one i wish to dedicate to English forumers :

L'Angleterre est une colonie française qui a mal tournée
Please let me take cover before you make the translation ...

[genesis[OFT]]

"This book is right. If you do not believe it and do not pay thousands of dollars of donations to the Vatican, you are wrong and going to burn in a hell which doesn't exist but let's pretend it does, OK?" -- Bible
Verse? Chapter? What version?

"SCIENCE IS RIGHT. YOU BATTLE SCIENCE, YOU ARE WRONG. GRRRRRR." -- Science

[iLazz 2.0]

"My greatest ambition is to have no ambition."
- Charles Bukowski

[crooked]

"Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day"

[Schmoky]

"I love the cock"

- Avarik


Edit: Shit. I forgot this one: (It really makes you think)


"I fuck bears, at speeds beyond human comprehension"

- Napalm

[Destagow]

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. -Albert Einstein


The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -John Powell


These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. -Vernon Cooper


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln


Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein


To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. -Amos Bronson Alcott

[System_Zero]

He who controls the past commands the future, he who commands the future conquers the past
- Kain ~ Command & Conquers / Command & Conquers: Red Alert

[Phlintlock]

Please let me take cover before you make the translation ...

Was that England is a french colony that turned bad?

[Akuma Bajen]

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh
...

[Zandrel]

I like this one because it sounds neat, and has a strong meaning.

"Whats burried alive never dies"

My mother

[Hacky]

There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl G. Jung

[Zandrel]

Very nice, there is so much wisdom in the world, it makes me happy yet overwhelmed that i will never recieve it all. This is a nice way to share it.

[Nuns With Guns]

Not religious, but political ( almost as amusing ^^ )

'Each man shall be equipped with an ammo pouch and every second man with a rifle. When the man in front of you dies, pick up the rifle and continue firing.'
- Soviet Army Manual ( C 1940 )

[Gozo]

mine is one im sure we all heard as young kids..

sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me

[bladeworship]

My favorite quote would be: This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it, as I must master my life. Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy, who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. Before God I swear this creed. My rifle and myself are defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it....until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen. --Soldiers prayer from Full Metal Jacket

Sorry if it is kind of long.

[KillHour]

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

- Albert Einstein

[Green Hat Linux]

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
- Warren Beatty

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Stupidity is like nuclear power; it can be used for good or evil... and you don't want to get any on you."
- Scott Adams in Dilbert

their are alot more, but their in the spoiler tag to keep this post small

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- AA Milne

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
- Harry S Truman

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
- Aeschylus

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
- Terry Pratchett

"The truth is more important than the facts."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
- George Santayana

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
- Laurence J. Peter

"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up."
- James Magary

"When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right."
- Albert Guinon

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."
- Hermann Hesse

"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
- Don Marquis

Confusion is always the most honest response.
- Marty Indik

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
- Arthur Koestler

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
- Senator Patrick Leahy

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
- GK Chesterton

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky

When you're through changing, you're through.
- Bruce Barton

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
- Aldous Huxley

[Slevin57]

Favorite

Ab/Ex uno disce omnes - From one person, learn all people

Runner Up

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

-Plato

[Badeballen]

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

H.Ibsen - An Enemy of the People

[Crack Monk]

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

H.Ibsen - An Enemy of the People

Bring me my brown pants!

[naomiReturns]

It's better to be quotable than to be honest
--Tom Stoppard

[Napalm]

I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky?....Well, do ya punk?
What?
It's philosophical. It's a quote. WIN-WIN.

[tjtoml]

Do or Do Not. There is no try. -Yoda
Hell hath no fury like the wrath of a scorned woman. -I wish I knew.
Sorry, the second one isn't too philisophical.

[crooked]

"Deal or no deal?" - Howie Mandel/Noel Edmonds

[Hacky]

Hell hath no fury like the wrath of a scorned woman. -I wish I knew.
Sorry, the second one isn't too philisophical.

Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.

The saying is from the closing line of act III of William Congreve's The Mourning Bride.

[tjtoml]

Thank you. I just thought of another:
"There are 68 million firearms in existence today. That's one gun for every twelve people. What I'm thinking is... How do we arm the other eleven?" Nickolas Cage in "Lord of War"

By the way, that was Hacky's 4000th post. Congrats.

[Sofa of Death]

"do not disturb"


Motel 8 door-hanger

[temporary]

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."



"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die."



"Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in."


"Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. "


"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."



“For man's greatest offense is that he has been born”.

Good stuff.

[StopMakingSense]

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger" -Friedrich Nietzsche
"History is written by the victors." -Machiavelli
"God is dead" -Friedrich Nietzsche

[baklava]

"Why?"

[temporary]

"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."

I often hear this as "Believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see."

[naomiReturns]

"At the age of three, I decided to stop growing."
-- Gunter Grass

Why? I just like it.

You would, too, if you'd read Die Blechtrommel.

[The muffin man]

"Why?"


Why not?

[crooked]

"i am gay" - avarik.


(someone had to post this)

[The muffin man]

Avarik is truly a philosophical genious.

[Shins]

"'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that,' he said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.'" -Ray Bradbury

[Microphotometrically]

yeah, and that's going to get you banned.

[StopMakingSense]

we dont need philosophical quotes, i can answer them all.

Seriously. The answer is 42.

[Denial]

we dont need philosophical quotes, i can answer them all.

Seriously. The answer is 42.

Best part about that series is when they find out the question. :D

[Arx]

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded." - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky