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Discussion in 'Philosophy' started by AK Infinity, Sep 18, 2006.

  1. #1 AK Infinity, Sep 18, 2006
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    "Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be."
    ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966~

     
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  2. It is not the books you read that make you intelligent, rather the thoughts aroused by those books.
    -Durchii

    Never make an attempt to reason with your shortcomings, for they will never be resolved with excuses.
    -Durchii


    Replace 'Coal in your stocking' with 'An Eternity in a burning hell' and you would still believe in Santa Claus, would you not?

    -Durchii


    They come to me randomly, I suppose. Enjoy.
     
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  3. If your gonna be stupid, you gotta be tough. -Me
     
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  4. "What we do is more potent than magic and more lasting than pain."

    ~AK Infinity~
     
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  5. Cool stuff
     
  6. Foolish optimism is redundant.
    -Me

    When one accepts life, that is when it truly ends
    -Me

    I don't subscribe to logic, so I'm free to say as I wish.
    -take a guess

    The last one isn't wholly true, just something I like to say when arguing to frustrate people:D
     
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  7. We are one
     
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  8. Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

    - Tom Robbins
     
  9. "Free Will Is An Illusion"-BF Skinner
     
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  10. ill just post some that i used to use as a sig on some older forums.

    "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."

    "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."

    "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

    "One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."


     
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  11. *Upon having a friend roll in dog feces*
    Me: Dude, holy shit!
    Friend: SHIT!
    Me: Shit! You just rolled in shit!
    Friend: Jesus! There's shit! SHIT!
    And now for a realistic quote...
    Me: If the Universe can't be made out of nothing, how can God just be out of nothing?
    Me: We're the biggest threat to ourselves.
     
  12. 'I am not, I will not be.
    I have not, I will not have.
    This frightens all children,
    And kills fear in the wise.'

    Nagarjuna, on Sunyata and the nature of reality.
     
  13. America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
    -Hunter S. Thompson​
     
  14. You mean from a song right? becuase i know that song, but I dont know the artist or name of it
     
  15. "Gotta get high to get by" - Bread
     
  16. The only obstacle to happiness is reality. -Anonymous

    No one has faith in God, they only have faith in those who have told you of God. - youngandstupid
     
  17. "collect paradoxes"


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  18. "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
    Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing?
    Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing?
    Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing?
    Then why call him God"
    --Epicurius--
     
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  19. 'As long as nationalism prevails, Peace will continue to perish.'
    -Durchii
     
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  20. "Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means."

    ~Robert Louis Stevenson~
     
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