A Conversation for Philosophical Phrases

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Post 161

Commander Xerxes Thamian Meridian

Well thats good for you creachy


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Post 162

russianboy

"The meaning of life is to find that meaning."


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Post 163

Commander Xerxes Thamian Meridian

But that would mean that you've already found it and here for your life is now meaningless because you've found the meaning.


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Post 164

The Professor

or you surpass the last point which our feeble minds can comprehend

The Professor
Societas Eruditorum


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Post 165

stealthwing

unfortunately foolish people can cause as much damage as those who do evil deliberately


"Rot at the core of an apple spreads outward."


i'm not a lunatic! just not very good at being bored.



"Is man merely a blunder of God's, or God merely a blunder of man's?" -Friedrich Nietzsche


religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "i am not the kind of person i want to be." it must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied


"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."


time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted


Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.


A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.


A man swears to keep from crying, a woman cries to keep from swearing. Both are sound psychology. Saftey valves - means of blowing off excess pressure that would otherwise blow fuses or burn out tubes.


a process cannot be understood by stopping it. understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.


if wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets


the mind commands the body and it obeys. the mind orders itself and meets resistance


any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. from the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.


a true friend stabs you in the front



paradise on my right, hell on my left and the angel of death behind


a stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both


If you are traveling in a car at the speed of light and you turn on your head lights...do they do anything? -Steven Wright



Give a man a fire, keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life.


a name implies legitimacy; in another sense, it also implies that there is something else that the named object is being contrasted with and discerned from.


-stealthwing


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Post 166

ShadeTheif

If you can not make someone understand you, it is because you do not understand them.

ShadeTheif-smiley - thief


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Post 167

Yelbakk

Two wrongs may not make one right, but two right turns will take you back the way you came.

Yelbakk


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Post 168

Ancient Brit

Confusious he say, if man makes two good right turns in search of origin, he must then make good rightabout turn to find way forward. smiley - biggrin


MasterJJmasteR

Post 169

MasterJJmasteR

Life is meaningless; Death is inevitable.


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Post 170

MasterJJmasteR

death comes to us all; so does that mean that we are all living?


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Post 171

Yelbakk

It's better to have loved and lost than to have never lost, at all.

Y.


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Post 172

jonathan030781

I am 7 the root of 42, I am therefore it is.


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Post 173

WurmSoup

"Cook until done" (Wurmsoup)


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Post 174

Yelbakk

A waiter asked Descartes whether he wanted something to drink. "I think not," replied the philosopher and disappeared.

Y.


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Post 175

WurmSoup

I'm pink therfore I'm spam? Perhaps not.


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Post 176

WurmSoup

wise man never pee into wind.


Athena the Wise

Post 177

Athena the Wise

FACTA NON VERBA (Greek)

Deeds, not words


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Post 178

Yelbakk

You sure this is Greek?


Y.


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Post 179

Athena the Wise

Did I say Greek? I meant Latin!!!!!smiley - blushsmiley - sillysmiley - sorrysmiley - doh


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Post 180

Yelbakk

Though *that* would be a great philosophical quote to use at any (im-)possible time: "Did I say Greek?" smiley - smiley

Y.


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