Your Favorite Philosophical Quote!
 

Didn't see another thread like this, correct me if I'm wrong.


"One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem."



:D

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i did! the one right under this one:)

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Although my formal education endears me to the ancient Greeks (Zeno, Heraclitus, etc.) I'll have to go with a more contemporary source.
"Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind."
15 fantasy bonus points to the person who can name the creator of that line. 5 points if you're over 30.

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The Rolling Stones, in Ruby Tuesday ;)

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That is from Ruby Tuesday by the Rolling Stones Right?

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Yep, it is

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"Vitam impendere vero" - Dedicate life to truth.

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I just finished reading a book by Gregory Maguire (he wrote the novel the musical "Wicked" is based on) and I'm always happy to find some good philosophical-ish words in his works. Here are some of my favorites from him:

"A glass slipper, once shattered, can't be resoled." Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.” Mirror Mirror

“We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it. Son of a Witch

Heidi

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"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" - ("Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound")

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This is a philosophy class examination that was given to students once as I read and one of the questions on the test was:
"Is this a question?"
And it said that one student replied with "If that is a question, then this is an answer" and it also said that the student got a good grade on that particular question.
I find it a pretty good answer, but others don't so tell me what do you guys think.
I believe that there is no wrong or right answers for philosophy questions, it all returns to what one might think or the way they evaluate it.

P.S. I am not sure if that fits here but it has to do with philosophy so yeah.

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#1: "Do or do not, there is no try." ~Yoda and Confusious
#2: "4.2 million hours of brain power and not a single one will be wasted on an irrelevant question like what in the hell is Paris Hilton doing right now." ~D.Lavery

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"S*%t happens, so you just better get used to it." - I have no idea.
I think this is a great motto. People my age need to live by this one more. Teenagers, at least some at my school, like to overreact.

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Reminds me of the other story about the final for the grad-level philosophy course. The final was one page, one question, one word:

"WHY?"

While many students turned in reams of paper containing existential arguments, metaphysical musings, and more than a few religious testimonials, only one student in the whole class got an A+ on the final.

Her response was two words.


"Why not?"

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Dude.

Wetzel

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I've spent the last couple of days sifting through some of my favorite quotes that I try to live by.

Here's one:
I find hope in the darkest days and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama

Here's a second:
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

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Here's one I came up with to be funny, but it *does* actually have real life applications, hehe.

"Sometimes you have to hit someone in the Metaphorical Face with the Shovel of Reality. Unfortunately for them, the Metaphorical Face is slightly behind the normal one, so you have to hit extra hard."

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It is what it is...so be it - unknown trucker late at night.

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"There's no such thing as stupid questions, only stupid people."

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One ring to rule them all. Lord of the Rings

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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, the good suffer, the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
- Bertrand Russell

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" If you Don't live for something then you die for Nothing." -Unknown but it is said by and tattooed on many Fire/EMS, Police and Military people, and soon to be me also.

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"Only fools are quoted."

I've been waiting a while to use that one. :p

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"An inch of time is an inch of gold"
"A witty saying proves nothing"

Philosophy has basically ripped itself apart in this day and age. It's very funny to see professors in philosophy babble on and contradict themselves when faced with the Socratic method.

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These are a few I thought up myself.

"People will never accept your line of thinking unless you destroy theirs. Don't use your own logic first, but use the their own argument against them."

"You have to have an optomistic attitude if you ever want anything good to happen."

"What's the point in arguing about something you can't change or has little to no effect on you? Trust me, you sleep much better at night if you don't think about it."

"Sometimes, it's hard being this awesome."

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:)

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I was reading up on the history of the Olympic Games, this isn't philosophic or anything but....

The Olympic Creed
Pierre de Coubertin got the idea for this phrase from a speech given by Bishop Ethelbert Talbot at a service for Olympic champions during the 1908 Olympic Games. The Olympic Creed reads:

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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Why not assume that the best-case scenario is true?"
- Jonathan Coulton

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"If everything is under control, you're not going fast enough."
-Mario Andretti

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
-Benjamin Franklin
I used that as my senior year quote.

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"Speak softly and carry a big stick..."-Teddy Roosevelt I don't particularly agree with it, but its clever and really simple.
I also love the quote in my signature....it applies to me almost daily, and to other people, too.

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I have always loved that quote. Another couple work hard quotes are:

"Chop your own wood, it will warm you twice."-Henry Ford

"“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”"
-I always thought this was a quote from Jesus, but I found a ton of different references as authors of this quote. Whoever said it I love its application to FIRST.

Lastly one of my favorites is:
"An open mind is an open door to opportunity."
Either I thought of this one a long time ago or read it somewhere when I was a kid.

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams

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It's not in the Bible. I believe it's commonly attributed to Confucius or one of the other great Chinese philosophers.

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One of my favorites is "Only Nixon could go to China."

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The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker

"There is nothing harder than being given your chance."
~ Deborah Chiel ~

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
~ Albert Einstein ~


"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
~ Elbert Hubbard ~

"To be nobody but myself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
~ E. E. Cummings ~
(1894-1962)


It's hard to pick just one... These are the top 5 most relevant to me right now... I keep a word doc on my desktop with my favorite quotes to keep me going when times are rough... And then there's fantastic movie quotes. :D

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I used to love this one when I was in high school....

"If everything is possible, there is a possibility that something is imposible..."

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I heard this one from a friend while in Utah recently:

"If you're ever worried that tomorrow will never come, don't worry; it's already tomorrow in Australia.";)

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We used to say that all the time when I was growing up in Australia. For some reason, it just never seemed to make much sense.

-dave



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austrilia, kangaroo game?

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I can see it now... we build robotic kangaroos, and the human players ride in the pouches!

(With significant padding on the robots to prevent any injury, of course!)

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Sweet :P

-Vivek

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Philosophers question: Is the glass half full or half empty?

Engineers answer: The glass is the wrong size!


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"Give a man a fire and you keep him warm for a night. Light a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life." - I have no idea.

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Aww, I was going to use that one.
Oh well.

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time"
--Bertrand Russel

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You measure the size of your accomplishments by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. Booker T. Washington

If you set your hair on fire and you put your feet in a bucket of ice water, on average you feel pretty good. anon

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one’s whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.
Carl G Jung

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<<Be careful, or be roadkill.>>

-Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes

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"If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck."

Elvis Presley