Author Topic: whos your favourite philosopher and which quotes you like from them? (Read 8741 times)

Raymondo · « **Reply #50 on:** January 12, 2013, 06:58:10 AM »

Quote from: syntaxmachine on January 11, 2013, 08:55:37 PM

Every human being that ever lived has been flawed in some way. What's absurd about having a 'favorite' philosopher on the basis of their work, personal flaws aside?

Can't I have a favorite actor, whatever freakish Hollywood bullshit they have going on off the screen?

I wasn't referring to their personalities as being flawed, but their work.

Parker · « **Reply #51 on:** January 12, 2013, 07:05:59 AM »

"People are stupid, but a person is smart"
-Professor Greene

HotRodMan · « **Reply #52 on:** January 12, 2013, 07:19:06 AM »

“This sunny day reminds me of one day 47 years ago, when I hopped in my GTO and headed for the Muscle Beach Dungeon. The ride was tight, fast and mean, the sun blazed across my windshield and the Pacific sparkled like diamonds at my nine. This was paradise and I didn’t know it.”
-Dave Draper

Parker · « **Reply #53 on:** January 12, 2013, 07:21:38 AM »

"Never trust a big butt and a smile"
Bell, Biv, Devoe

syntaxmachine · « **Reply #54 on:** January 12, 2013, 08:26:45 AM »

Quote from: Mr. Magoo on January 12, 2013, 06:12:38 AM

Someone's been watching Dan Dennett ted videos

Don't worry, despite my appropriating the joke, it is indeed true: I grew attached to a rarified sub-topic in metaphysics, itself a rarified branch of analytic philosophy. Substantive conversation is nigh impossible with the uninformed and still difficult among experts from other wings of the field.

haider · « **Reply #55 on:** January 12, 2013, 08:27:50 AM »

Quote from: syntaxmachine on January 12, 2013, 08:26:45 AM

Don't worry, despite my appropriating the joke, it is indeed true: I grew attached to a rarified sub-topic in metaphysics, itself a rarified branch of analytic philosophy.

what exactly did you study in college?

syntaxmachine · « **Reply #56 on:** January 12, 2013, 08:43:03 AM »

Quote from: Raymondo on January 12, 2013, 06:58:10 AM

I wasn't referring to their personalities as being flawed, but their work.

Oh, ok. To me, 'hopeless romanticism' sounded more like a personality flaw rather than anything to do with Russell's Theory of Descriptions or some such (i.e., any actual philosophical work).

Nitpicking about the examples your provided aside, I think you're absolutely right that all the big names in philosophy have their limitations or outright follies, insights notwithstanding. But I still don't think there's anything inherently "absurd" in picking a favorite philosopher on the basis of their having more insights than others, or perhaps having an insight that is central to one's belief system, like a crown jewel (or, central to a specific sub-portion of one's belief system).

Purge_WTF · « **Reply #57 on:** January 12, 2013, 12:10:06 PM »

Pat Buchanan:
"[Bill] Kristol’s warning that neoconservatives could go to Kerry was an admission of what many have long recognized. The neoconservatives are not really conservatives at all. They are impostors and opportunists."

Ron Paul:
"Truth is treason in the empire of lies."

Joe Vogler:
"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government."

_bruce_ · « **Reply #58 on:** January 12, 2013, 02:48:25 PM »

"Normal people, the people who walk the streets everyday - we cannot understand!"

-The Warrior/James Brian Hellwig

The Ugly · « **Reply #59 on:** January 12, 2013, 03:00:16 PM »

"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."
Jack Handy

cephissus · « **Reply #60 on:** January 12, 2013, 03:05:55 PM »

lol @ e-kul quoting nietzsche as if he's his "favorite philosopher" when clearly, he's never read more than a couple quotes here and there, as the rest is completely irreconcilable with 'kul's blabbering.

my favorite quote is

"to a god all things are fair and good and just, but people hold some things wrong and some right."

by heraclitus

Borracho · « **Reply #61 on:** January 12, 2013, 03:09:58 PM »

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." André Gide (some french writer)

Griffith · « **Reply #62 on:** January 12, 2013, 03:20:23 PM »

Niccolo Machiavelli:

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

Van_Bilderass · « **Reply #63 on:** January 13, 2013, 04:09:30 PM »

E. M. Cioran, his aphorisms are just great.

“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”

“In most cases we attach ourselves to God in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men."

Raymondo · « **Reply #64 on:** January 13, 2013, 04:11:23 PM »

Quote from: Van_Bilderass on January 13, 2013, 04:09:30 PM

E. M. Cioran, his aphorisms are just great.

“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”

“In most cases we attach ourselves to God in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men."

Aphorisms are not that difficult to write, IMO.

Van_Bilderass · « **Reply #65 on:** January 13, 2013, 04:21:08 PM »

Quote from: Raymondo on January 13, 2013, 04:11:23 PM

Aphorisms are not that difficult to write, IMO.

Maybe that's why these resonate with a simple guy such as myself.

Who actually reads and understands Kant?

Viking11 · « **Reply #66 on:** January 13, 2013, 04:59:01 PM »

Quote from: Van_Bilderass on January 13, 2013, 04:21:08 PM

Maybe that's why these resonate with a simple guy such as myself.

Who actually reads and understands Kant?

. I have an anecdote about Mike Mentzer talking about Kant if anyone cares.

Mr. Magoo · « **Reply #67 on:** January 13, 2013, 05:14:19 PM »

Quote from: Van_Bilderass on January 13, 2013, 04:21:08 PM

Maybe that's why these resonate with a simple guy such as myself.

Who actually reads and understands Kant?

it takes effort, but it's wonderful interpretation.

arce1988 · « **Reply #68 on:** January 13, 2013, 05:33:54 PM »

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Marcus Aurelius

Metabolic · « **Reply #69 on:** January 13, 2013, 06:11:27 PM »

Quote from: Van_Bilderass on January 13, 2013, 04:21:08 PM

Maybe that's why these resonate with a simple guy such as myself.

Who actually reads and understands Kant?

Its more the fear of reading Kant than actually understanding it that drives people not to read him, imo.

WOOO · « **Reply #70 on:** January 13, 2013, 06:14:51 PM »

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

arce1988 · « **Reply #71 on:** January 13, 2013, 06:16:26 PM »

Cant do Kant

Kwon_2 · « **Reply #72 on:** January 13, 2013, 06:54:42 PM »

Arce
"PED

TTT"

Griffith · « **Reply #73 on:** January 14, 2013, 02:22:21 AM »

Quote from: arce1988 on January 13, 2013, 05:33:54 PM

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Marcus Aurelius

Another excellent quote, thank you.

Raymondo · « **Reply #74 on:** January 15, 2013, 07:40:58 AM »

Quote from: Van_Bilderass on January 13, 2013, 04:21:08 PM

Maybe that's why these resonate with a simple guy such as myself.

Who actually reads and understands Kant?

Many people have, as for understanding him ...

I have a theory that Nietzsche attacks on Kant's systems had as much to do with his convoluted, incredibly abstruse style as with anything else.

Author Topic: whos your favourite philosopher and which quotes you like from them? (Read 8741 times)

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