your favorite philosopher quotes? [Archive]

che_phoenix

26th January 2005, 19:08

i have many

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

those are the only ones that i can find right now

EDIT: i meant philsophy not philosopher

RagsToRevolution

26th January 2005, 19:20

While not necessarily a Troskyite, or even a Leninist, I will have to say it is the Leon Trotsky quote I have in my signature, which basically defines who I am as a Marxist and political activist.

Roses in the Hospital

26th January 2005, 20:00

"Philosophers have previously saught to understand the world; our task is to change it."
Karl Marx

guerillablack

27th January 2005, 15:54

"The reasonable man insists on adapting to the world. The unreasonable man persists on having the world adapt to him. Therefore, all progress in the world is made by the unreasonable man."

Roses in the Hospital

27th January 2005, 17:29

Also,

"The unexamined life is not worth living"
Plato
Pretty much sums up the point of philosophy

SpeCtrE

27th January 2005, 18:13

The supreme Achievement of he intellect is to leave itself behind.

History teaches us that people have never learnt anything from hisory itself.

Dyst

27th January 2005, 19:56

"Geometry existed before the creation."
Plato

"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."
Albert Einstein.

I could go on.

Pedro Alonso Lopez

27th January 2005, 20:55

Originally posted by Roses in the [email protected] 26 2005, 08:00 PM
"Philosophers have previously saught to understand the world; our task is to change it."
Karl Marx

Hate that quote, philosophy is descriptive for fecks sake.

Anyway my quote:

The world is a will to power, and nothing more besides.

You guess who said it.

monkeydust

27th January 2005, 21:05

It's got to be:

"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher"

-Socrates

Motorcycle_diAries

1st February 2005, 06:16

God is dead, and we have buried him.
**********************************F.Neisztche.

Pete

1st February 2005, 12:42

'And that,' she replied,' is the one thing that could entice minds endowed with natural excellence though not yet perfected with the finishing touch of complete virtue-the desire for glory...
'[W]hat about the fact that the manners and customs of different peoples are so unalike that different peoples will consider the same thing praise-worthy or punishable? A man may be pleased at the publication of his fame abroad, but among many peoples it may not be to his benefit at all to have his reputation spread. So a man will be content when he is famous throughout his own people, and his bright immortal fame will be confined within the bounds of a single nation.
'Many men have been famous in their time but their memory has perished because there were no historians to write about them. And yet the very histories are of little use when like their authors they become lost in the depths of time which makes all things obscure. When you think of your future fame you think you are creating for yourself a kind of immortality. But if you think of the infitine recesses of eternity you have little cause to take pleasure in any coninuation of your name. The span of a single second can be compared with ten thousand years, but minute though it may be, it still has a value in proportion because each is a finite measure of time. But ten thousand years, or any multiple of it however great, cannot be compared with unending eternity. For while finite things can be compared with one another, the finite and the infinite can never be compared. So however protracted the life of your fame, when compared with unending eternity it is shown to be not just little, but nothing at all.'Boethius, in the Consolation of Philosophy

ComradeChris

1st February 2005, 14:59

Any of the quotes in my signature.

Also:
"Humility is the foundation of all virtues." - Confucius

"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false." - Paul Valery

"If you chase after money and security, your heart will never unclench." - Lao-Tze

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." - Einstein

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." - Jeannette Rankin

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Socrates

UtopicImperium

1st February 2005, 21:34

This quote is THE quote for the young generation...
"Do not let school interfere with your education"
-George Bernard Shaw

"Society isn't a system or an organism, it is a battle, which the rich usually win"
Georg Simmel

"Television is about as real as watching a goldfish bowl and thinking that's what the sea is like"
Jean Baudrillard

"If a man doesn't fight for his idiology is either an idiology not worth fighting for or a man that is worth nothing"
Benito Mussolini (im no fascist, but i think it is a great quote)

Nick Yves

1st February 2005, 22:44

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
-Buckminster Fuller

"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy..."
-Albert Einstein

& you gotta love Sartre.

CamusforU

2nd February 2005, 03:55

"After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion."
-Albert Camus

A very fitting quote for our current American dictator.

Monty Cantsin

2nd February 2005, 11:42

Originally posted by Pedro Alonso [email protected] 27 2005, 08:55 PM

Anyway my quote:

The world is a will to power, and nothing more besides.

You guess who said it.
Syphilitic infections spread to the brain and interfere with mental activity… or maybe it was just a life lone mental illness that gradually drove him insane.

but anyways i agree with the will to power (of my own interpretation) but i wouldnt uses the term it's too ambiguous. This you know leads to Hiteristic interpretations and implementations

Taiga

2nd February 2005, 15:07

See my signature (the last one).
I adore it :lol:

Dyst

2nd February 2005, 15:12

"At its deepest level, reality is mathematical in nature."
-Pythagoras

This is not a direct quote, but it represents the philosophical views of Pythagoreans.

Wilden

2nd February 2005, 15:58

All men are equal before God: wisdom, talents, and virtue are the only difference between them. - Napoleon Bonaparte

RedStarOverChina

2nd February 2005, 17:38

"Serve the people" ---Mao Zedong
The most simply yet the most difficult idea. I love it.

American_Trotskyist

2nd February 2005, 22:38

I don't think, and I laugh at those who do, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Or Trotsky were philosophers. They studied economics, history, science and society. I like Hegel. But my favorate quote about philosophy is by Marx, "Philosophy to the Real World is like Masterbation to Sex,"
:marx: :cool:

ComradeChris

3rd February 2005, 03:54

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2005, 06:38 PM
I don't think, and I laugh at those who do, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Or Trotsky were philosophers. They studied economics, history, science and society. I like Hegel. But my favorate quote about philosophy is by Marx, "Philosophy to the Real World is like Masterbation to Sex,"
:marx: :cool:
I'm sure that they loved wisdom. But the idea of a "philosopher" is always changing, but I think if we stick to the grass roots term which essentially means, 'A lover of wisdom' it makes the most sense. So if someones quote makes you think it's probably very wise and I'd place them in the philosopher category.

seraphim

3rd February 2005, 11:12

"If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing."

Voltaire good to live by

October Revolution

3rd February 2005, 12:34

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2005, 10:38 PM
Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Or Trotsky were philosophers.
Stalin was not a philosopher in any sense of the word. He didn't add anything new to Marxism apart from maybe putting a more dictatorial slant on it and he certainly didn't come up with any ideoligies of his own that were better than trash.

Dyst

3rd February 2005, 14:14

I don't know if you realize it or not, but Am_Trot said they were not philosophers... Read it again.

October Revolution

3rd February 2005, 17:50

Yeh i got that i was just pointing out that out of all of them Stalin was the least likely to ever be confused as a philosopher.

Sorry if i wasn't clear.

Neway Marx was clearly a philosopher as in he thrived for knowledge and tried to develop the human race through social development. (Also you get taught about him in philosophy classes at college so that must count for something :P)

Pedro Alonso Lopez

3rd February 2005, 20:13

Originally posted by October Revolution+Feb 3 2005, 12:34 PM--> (October Revolution @ Feb 3 2005, 12:34 PM)
[email protected] 2 2005, 10:38 PM
Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Or Trotsky were philosophers.
Stalin was not a philosopher in any sense of the word. He didn't add anything new to Marxism apart from maybe putting a more dictatorial slant on it and he certainly didn't come up with any ideoligies of his own that were better than trash. [/b]

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/...rks/1938/09.htm (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm)

Stalin is responsible pretty much for this trend in Marxism.

The Grapes of Wrath

4th February 2005, 04:49

"All I know is that I know nothing ..."
- Socrates

Great to live by if you think about it.

TGOW

ComradeRed

6th February 2005, 04:57

"Read a fucking book" - Plato

I think its important for any philosophy to "read a fucking book". :)

ComradeChris

6th February 2005, 05:47

Originally posted by [email protected] 6 2005, 12:57 AM
"Read a fucking book" - Plato

I think its important for any philosophy to "read a fucking book". :)
Plato said that? :lol:

Big_Don

14th February 2005, 09:24

I think Plato is one of the greatest philosophers of all time

Just read the signature below

comrade_mufasa

14th February 2005, 19:40

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2005, 04:24 AM
I think Plato is one of the greatest philosophers of all time

Just read the signature below
I agree with the first quote in your sig but the second one:

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty".
Plato
If anyone did not know Plato was against democracy and I dont mean the kind that Athens had I mean the idea of democracy itself.

CommieBastard

14th February 2005, 19:47

Yes, but do remember, he's talking about democracy, that's something that's less in existence than it was in his time, and equates to majority rule, including to the detriment of minorities.

comrade_mufasa

14th February 2005, 21:47

Yes, but do remember, he's talking about democracy, that's something that's less in existence than it was in his time, and equates to majority rule, including to the detriment of minorities.
Well thats true.

Dyst

14th February 2005, 21:52

I especially liked this part of the quote: "and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

Can be taken multiple ways. However, obviously it says that, for example, through the freedom of the US, there is the workers and other countries' people who have built that and maintains that freedom and luxury the american people enjoy.

It can also be considered as a kick against anarchism, though.

Lauren

15th February 2005, 08:54

Originally posted by The Grapes of [email protected] 4 2005, 04:49 AM
"All I know is that I know nothing ..."
- Socrates

I agree this is my favourite quote to. Socrates rocks.
Someone was talking bout Marx as being a philosopher I agree that he was but he was just as much an anti-philosopher if that makes any sense

Dyst

15th February 2005, 11:02

No, he wasn't. What makes you claim so?

katie mccready

15th February 2005, 11:42

Who said: he who does not learn from history is domed to rerepet it?
dont make me choose a favorot orwell quoat.

ComradeChris

17th February 2005, 17:20

If anyone did not know Plato was against democracy and I dont mean the kind that Athens had I mean the idea of democracy itself.

I don't know...if we look at the US' democracy it's taking an almost tyrannical spin. Hell we now have dynasties of stupid people running the country. He also hated it because it was the system that killed Socrates. Not to mention he was in favour of his "Republic" and most of those quotes comes from that source.

Domingo

17th February 2005, 17:59

My all time two favs:

Heroclitus: "All is flux, nothing is stationary."

and

Peter Griffon: "Why?"

comrade_mufasa

17th February 2005, 21:15

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2005, 12:20 PM

If anyone did not know Plato was against democracy and I dont mean the kind that Athens had I mean the idea of democracy itself.

I don't know...if we look at the US' democracy it's taking an almost tyrannical spin. Hell we now have dynasties of stupid people running the country. He also hated it because it was the system that killed Socrates. Not to mention he was in favour of his "Republic" and most of those quotes comes from that source.
The US is not a democracy it is a republic.

ComradeChris

17th February 2005, 21:40

Originally posted by comrade_mufasa+Feb 17 2005, 05:15 PM--> (comrade_mufasa @ Feb 17 2005, 05:15 PM)
[email protected] 17 2005, 12:20 PM

If anyone did not know Plato was against democracy and I dont mean the kind that Athens had I mean the idea of democracy itself.

I don't know...if we look at the US' democracy it's taking an almost tyrannical spin. Hell we now have dynasties of stupid people running the country. He also hated it because it was the system that killed Socrates. Not to mention he was in favour of his "Republic" and most of those quotes comes from that source.
The US is not a democracy it is a republic. [/b]
True...but a republic is a representative democracy....suopposedly ;) .

Aurorus Ruber

25th February 2005, 23:32

Existence proceeds essence. — Sartre

Religion is the opiate of the masses. — Marx

Property is theft. — Proudhon.

Those are a few of my favorites.

Citzen Smith

27th February 2005, 04:38

A republic is any system which is not a monarchy, it need not be repersentative, however the basic idea is that a republic serves the interests of the people in it rather than one leader a the top of it.

My favourite quote has to be

Power corrupts, Abouslete power corrupts abousletely

its true, that y i beleive that any system that encourages someone at the top in any way shape or form is wrong. Communism with one leader doesnt work. Course, neither does the American system with one man essentially at the top for 4 years, with no controls on his behaviour.

CommieBastard

27th February 2005, 06:33

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2005, 05:59 PM
Peter Griffon: "Why?"
ROFL

Altho wasn't that one of Peter Griffin's ancestors?

{GR}Raine

5th March 2005, 03:51

"Christianity is precisely the religon par excellence, because it exhibits and manifests, to the fullest extent, the very nature and esscense of every religious system, which is the improvement, enslavement, and annihilation of humanity for the benefit of divinity" - Mikhail Bakunin

burn_ladiesagainstfeminism

5th March 2005, 03:57

"Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds"- Paramanhansa Yogananda

nochastitybelt

23rd March 2005, 04:16

True friends stab you in the front

Oscar Wilde

The Garbage Disposal Unit

23rd March 2005, 05:12

Boredom is counter-revolutionary. Always.
- Guy Debord

There is no sin except stupidity.
- Oscar Wilde

The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
- Germaine Greer

Taiga

23rd March 2005, 10:24

Well, he wasn't a philosopher, but anyway........

"It doesn't really matter who and how votes, what matters is who and how counts". Joseph Stalin.

I don't like the idea, but still adore the quote. :)

Fidelbrand

23rd March 2005, 11:27

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, XI (1845)

Domingo

23rd March 2005, 15:09

Originally posted by CommieBastard+Feb 27 2005, 06:33 AM--> (CommieBastard @ Feb 27 2005, 06:33 AM)
[email protected] 17 2005, 05:59 PM
Peter Griffon: "Why?"
ROFL

Altho wasn't that one of Peter Griffin's ancestors? [/b]
Yeah, I just couldn't think of the name. lol.

I am really not that big on the this stuff.

Rebel_Serigan

23rd February 2009, 04:26

Quotes are a dime a dozen, which means if i could sell them i would be rich. Anyway, I can't chose between my two favorite quotes so i will just have to throw down both.

"Democracy is just how it was in ancient Greece; freedom for the slave owner"- Vladimir Lenin

"I do not care if I fall, as long as someone picks up my gun and keeps shooting."- Ernesto "CHE" Guevara.

Glorious Union

23rd February 2009, 04:59

"I like your Christ but not your Christians, your Christians are nothing like your Christ"
~Gandhi

^True of all organized religions.

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"Can a nation be free if it opresses other nations? It cannot."
~Vladimir Lenin

"How can someone win if that means someone loses"
~Scatman John

^Both meaning the same thing really.

Hit The North

23rd February 2009, 16:24

"All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football."- Albert Camus

"After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. He nutmegged him and scored a wonderful goal from 30 yards out. I would love him to save me a place in his team - George Best that is, not God." - Eric Cantona

Vanguard1917

23rd February 2009, 17:18

"After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. He nutmegged him and scored a wonderful goal from 30 yards out. I would love him to save me a place in his team - George Best that is, not God." - Eric Cantona

Some more homespun football philosophizing from King Eric:

'An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches "cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window." There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.'

'The quest for spontaneity is fundamental to art - and football expresses it best.'

'We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.'

'Leaving a club is like leaving a woman. When you have nothing left to say, you go.'