Main > Philosophy
Remember that philosophy is not simply something you do but something you are.
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Main > Philosophy
No philosopher ever got away with merely being intelligent. You have to be immoral first and foremost. All the great thinkers were thoroughly sordid.
Diogenes (25)
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Main > Philosophy > Thinking
When doing philosophy try not to think too much about doing philosophy. Leave room for actual thinking.
Diogenes (25)
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Main > Philosophy > Truth
When confronted with a truth, run like hell. It's an honest response. Soon enough you'll stop and it'll still be there in front of you.
Diogenes (25)
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Main > Philosophy > Truth
Don't be afraid of the midday shadow. Truth is like that. You know it's there, you just can't quite see it, and when you do, it isn't quite midday.
Diogenes (25)
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Main > Philosophy
Philosophers don't philosophise. They make a choice to live or die.
Diogenes (25)
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Main > Philosophy
As a philosopher you should guard against emotions getting the better of you; especially the emotion of letting emotion get the better of you.....
Diogenes (25)
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Main > Philosophy
There's a conscious difference between non-attachment and going with the flow.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Truth
Pray not for Truth to be revealed to you, but that you might develop the strength to understand it.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Conscience
The spiritual man willingly confronts difficult situations. He makes himself vulnerable, to bring his weaknesses and their accompanying delusions to the surface where they can be recognised and dealt with. Thus does his suffering facilitate healing.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Conscience
You can inject snake venom into your blood to gain immunity. There may well be fever at first, but one emerges the better for it. The weak cannot take large dosages, so their progress is slow. The strong transfer their blood for poison; they gain immunity rapidly.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Thinking
Some thinker's jewels:
Crop rotation. Vary the theme.
Redoubling. Reflect truths back onto themselves.
Irony. Use the same language as others, but with a true meaning.
Listen to the Earth. What music is it?
Indolence. Do nothing, really nothing.
Love. There can be only One.
Create values. Be your Commander, not a slave to the force of false habits.
Fishing. Seek out delusions so the Devil won't catch you unawares later.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Conscience
The one of high scope has developed a deep disgust for all things worldly, and now has a clear vision of the Goal. He is determined to attain perfection quickly and at all costs. Such a one does not compromise. Nor does he fear pain, for he does not have enough faith in his own existence to be able to act in self-preservation. He holds nothing back; he sees all.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Thinking
Reason is not unlike a second wind, which sustains, but is not reached without considerable pain.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Truth
The desire for Truth and the love of reason is indeed an emotional passion, but no ordinary passion, for it ends in the destruction of passion. However, if you use reason only sparingly and without complete love, as do the scientists, then your reason will be no more than ordinary greed, used opportunistically and inconsistently. In such a dilapidated state of mind you will have no right to proclaim reason above the feminine emotions. If you do not follow reason to completion your inconsistency will leave you open to a thousand criticisms. You will be told you are suppressing feelings - and you will be - as you will lack the power to utterly destroy feelings as they should be destroyed. You will be a hypocrite, living a double life with double standards.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Thinking
The earlier in life one starts to understand it, the less life is wasted on fixing mistakes.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy
Remember - a zebra never changes its spots.
Spud (21)
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Main > Philosophy > Conscience
Unhelpful thoughts are like a taunting bully. Ignore them and they'll go away.
Or they're like seeds: don't give them a roothold, and they don't grow.
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Main > Philosophy > Thinking
Hate and science divide infinitely; love and philosophy join infinitely.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Truth
Concentrate on what is real and forever remain separate from this transient world.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Thinking
If you feel the urge to become a thinker - think again.
Diogenes (25)
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Main > Philosophy
Remember that philosophers are not born, they are made - at birth.
Diogenes (25)
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Main > Philosophy
If you have to ask what it takes to do philosophy, you don't have what it takes to do philosophy.
Diogenes (25)
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Main > Philosophy > Thinking
Don't think on an empty stomach. Surely you can think about something more important than that!
Diogenes (25)
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Main > Philosophy > Zen
Enz Nez. What is Enz Nez? What it is.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Zen
People fighting over money should divide it. Then they should swallow it.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Zen
Anyone who hears an endless melody sings along.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Cause and effect
Cause and effect is not 'A then B' but 'if A, then B'.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Cause and effect
A cause is necessary for a thing to exist, so causation doesn't exist.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Cause and effect
What causes all things? As if it could be a thing!
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Zen
All others are Buddhas if you are.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Zen
Resigning to the Infinite,
A man steps off the pole of his conceptions,
Then Faith stops stepping, and floats:
He lives boundlessly in All.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Zen
The fair-weather sailor loves the Bodhi.
But when the sea is rough, he returns to land.
If he loved also the Bodhi's wild oceanic fury,
His boat could carry everyone.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Woman
Understand woman, and you understand the highest. Transcend woman, and you transcend the highest. Reject woman, and you reject the highest - the ego!
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Woman
General Tips:
Woman is:
1. Unaware she is personified egotism. She believes egotism is individualism, and egolessness is 'helping others' (see 2 and 3)
2. An actress, ie. one who skilfully combines falseness with a good conscience
3. Incapable of justice, unable to truly sympathise with others because she sees only what will serve her needs
4. Soulless, by lacking the 'I', which is a thought-centred entity. Thus, she is spontaneous and emotionally incontinent, inconsistent and moody, and deeply disturbed by physical sensations and changes in her body. She is an instinctively good animal communicator.
5. Always 'good' in the way a child is good, with no conception of original sin
6. More a woman and a female than a distinct individuality in her own right, thus, one woman is like any other
7. Free of any blame for her existence, since only one who consciously sins can be culpable
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy > Woman
What is most scary about women is the way they can do the most terrible harmful things with no remorse, especially if they feel wronged themselves by someone. They never question their own feeling of being wronged by someone - somehow it's never caused by themselves in any way.
Women have this strong trait in common with mass-murdering dictators, serial killers and sadists.
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Main > Philosophy > Zen
Water surrounds the lotus-flower,
but does not wet its petals.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy
If happiness came from truth, I’d write a syllogism.
Trevor Salyzyn (1)
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Main > Philosophy
Philosophy is not something you do amongst a group of like-minded others; you do it alone and alone before others, and without their permission.
kellyjones00 (593)
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Main > Philosophy
A little closer can change the story and appearance
Prince nwaigwe (9)
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Main > Philosophy
Men of great philosopy are born for it and they makes it their air which they take in
Prince nwaigwe (9)
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Main > Philosophy
Don't be too hasty in conclusion because the next second can give a better result
Prince nwaigwe (9)
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Main > Philosophy
The Middle Way is not meant as balance. It is not meant as avoiding or combining extremes like being happy / sympathetic with being cranky, afraid, or depressed. It is not meant as avoiding logical distinctions via a fuzzy uncertainty.
The Middle Way is the logical result of not believing that distinctions and boundaries are inherent in reality. One doesn't take positions as if they're real and fixed.
kellyjones00 (593)
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