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Philosophy Tweets

"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." Socrates


Let's hope that never happens here, Mr. Objectivist. 8)

"I need someone to explain to me why it’s always 'if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts' and not 'if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts, rockets and spacecraft'". overheard

Yo, Mr. Crony Capitalist! You're up!!

“You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.” Plotinus

Blind luck? Metaphysically?

"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind." Napoleon

In other words, what are you doing here?

"If you write a hit song it is like discovering oil in your back yard." JJ Cale

Did he ever write one?
This will do until he does:
https://youtu.be/aizblzL4w-k

“Whether we are Christians or atheists, in our universal schizophrenia, we need reasons to believe in this world.” Gilles Deleuze

See, I told you.
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"One day your parents picked you up, sat you down, and never picked you up again."
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Harlan Ellison

The minute people fall in love they become liars.


Bad liars at that.

I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene'...excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned' it FOR you. Do what I wrote. If you want to 'envision', you should become a writer. Where the fuck were you when the page was blank?

Next up: 'here's how I envision this post'.

To say more is to say less.

Trust me: not every single time.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

Right, coming from him. And not, say, Stephen King?

And we passed through the cavern of rats.
And we passed through the path of boiling steam.
And we passed through the country of the blind.
And we passed through the slough of despond.
And we passed through the vale of tears.
And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.


It was a normal day.

...be careful of monsters with teeth...

Or, here: pinheads with posts.
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Paulo Coelho

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.


Really? How do you explain the pinheads here then?

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Then staying down when you reach ten of course.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Define "everyone"?

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

How about this: the pinheads leave and actual philosophers arrive.
Here, for example.


Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Let's just hope that never happens here.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world.

Among other things, how ridiculous is that?
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Jan Mieszkowski

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting." Vladimir Nabokov


Hell, that might describe anyone.

Plato: A good idea is worth dying for
Kant: The idea of the good is worth dying for
Beckett: Dying sounds like a good idea


In any event, they're all dead.

Exiled on a desert island, you get to have one work of philosophy with you – what's it going to be?

Of course: Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Blood of Others.

French philosophy: I wager God exists
German philosophy: I posit that I exist
British philosophy: I’d be mildly offended if you didn’t exist
American philosophy: I'm a material girl in a material world


Sounds about right. And then some.

Philosophy 101: Why?
Philosophy 102: Why not?
Philosophy 103: Who cares?


Philosophy 104: Show me the money?

Is Twitter a waste of time?

Kant: What is "time"?
Bataille: What is "waste"?
Schelling: What is "is"?
Heidegger: What is "of"?
Wittgenstein: What is “a”?
Camus: Yes.


Elon Musk: ask me later.
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Galileo Galilei

The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.


At least until it expands and swallows the Earth whole.

Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.

Ah, the resident contrarians.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Tell me about it!

I would beg the wise and learned fathers of the church to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

Yo, Immanuel Can! Yo, her!!

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Yeah, that probably means your Scripture too.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

It vexes a lot of us.
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From all over the place...

Hillbilly Wisdom:

Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

Keep skunks, bankers, and politicians at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

If you don’t take the time to do it right, you’ll find the time to do it twice.

Don’t corner something that is meaner than you.

Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.

It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

You cannot unsay a cruel word.

Every path has a few puddles.

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

Don’t be banging your shin on a stool that’s not in the way.

Borrowing trouble from the future doesn’t deplete the supply.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.

Don’t judge folks by their relatives.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

Don‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin’ you none.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

The biggest troublemaker you’ll ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin’.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Don’t squat with your spurs on.

Good judgment comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.

If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Most times, it just gets down to common sense.
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The Onion

Relieved Trump Thought Mar-A-Lago Raid Was About All The Bodies


That or the piss tape.

Determined Lab Researcher Not Giving Up On Finding Something That Can Be Cured By Drinking Own Urine

Any cures here?

Encouragement Of Family, Friends Motivating Man To Keep Struggling Indefinitely

Or until he dies I'm guessing.

Man Honestly Thinks He’s Going To Get To Bed Early

And does!!!

American Masculinity Faces Existential Threat After Man Asked To Be Nicer Sometimes

Mission impossible let's call it.

Man Sleeps Through His Stop On Elevator

Okay, but who hasn't that happened to?
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Willem de Kooning

Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.


My guess: not all content.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness.

A likeness to what you might ask.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Of course, nothing is not called art these days.
Or, here, philosophy.


The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

You know, whatever that means.

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

That's always hard to tell.

If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.

You tell me.
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The Onion

Brutalized Toothbrush Wishes Owner Would Just Let It Die


Admittedly, I've had a few like that myself.

Report: U.S. Still Leads World With Highest Density Of Kevins

And we're all still separated by six degrees from one of them.

Overzealous Fly Not Even Waiting For Shit To Drop From Dog’s Asshole

Flew right up there.

Texas School Censors All Of ‘Huck Finn’ Except The N-Words

Let's try to pin down what N-Word that was.

Unambitious Psychopath Still Only Killing Small Animals

My guess: Give him time.

Report: 50% Of Heaven’s Population Just Assholes Who Begged For Forgiveness At Last Second

Yo, her! What does that tell us about God?!!
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David Foster Wallace from Infinite Jest

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.


Of course, I really am, right?

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

And here, that's my job.

That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.

Sure, that and other things.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

And especially where I take it.

And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.

That pinhead Scientologist of course.

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.

Note to Ecmandu:

No way that will work with me.
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iambiguous wrote: Sun Aug 21, 2022 7:43 pm Report: 50% Of Heaven’s Population Just Assholes Who Begged For Forgiveness At Last Second

Yo, her! What does that tell us about God?!!
Truth: iambiguous is coming across as the worst type of short-sighed atheist, a god bothering fucktard.
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attofishpi wrote: Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:07 am
iambiguous wrote: Sun Aug 21, 2022 7:43 pm Report: 50% Of Heaven’s Population Just Assholes Who Begged For Forgiveness At Last Second

Yo, her! What does that tell us about God?!!
Truth: iambiguous is coming across as the worst type of short-sighed atheist, a god bothering fucktard.
Not all that familiar with The Onion, are you? :lol:
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iambiguous wrote: Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:59 am
attofishpi wrote: Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:07 am
iambiguous wrote: Sun Aug 21, 2022 7:43 pm Report: 50% Of Heaven’s Population Just Assholes Who Begged For Forgiveness At Last Second

Yo, her! What does that tell us about God?!!
Truth: iambiguous is coming across as the worst type of short-sighed atheist, a god bothering fucktard.
Not all that familiar with The Onion, are you? :lol:
What of it, you ARE a short-sighed atheist god botherer! :P
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Markus Zusak

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.


Like the day you were born.

It kills me sometimes, how people die.

It being, among other things, beyond our control.

Even death has a heart.

He wondered, however, if his would.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

I wouldn't bet the farm though.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Thrown from what distance though?

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.

You know the one.
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