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Jan 4, 2010 11:18:48 GMT -8
Post by Olspher on Jan 4, 2010 11:18:48 GMT -8
I was surfing Wikipedia and a quote by Friedrich Engels struck me, something tells me Jalorn will like this one.
“ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways—the point however is to change it ”
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Jan 12, 2010 17:35:18 GMT -8
Post by Jalorn on Jan 12, 2010 17:35:18 GMT -8
Good man, Engels.
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Jan 16, 2010 8:35:08 GMT -8
Post by Olspher on Jan 16, 2010 8:35:08 GMT -8
Not counting the various violent implications of the Communist Manifesto of course...
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Jan 16, 2010 13:35:54 GMT -8
Post by Jalorn on Jan 16, 2010 13:35:54 GMT -8
Of course, lol.
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Apr 22, 2010 5:53:25 GMT -8
Post by Olspher on Apr 22, 2010 5:53:25 GMT -8
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Apr 22, 2010 14:27:42 GMT -8
Post by Jalorn on Apr 22, 2010 14:27:42 GMT -8
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what they had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
(btw that was completely from memory; I last saw that quote 4 months ago)
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Apr 22, 2010 14:48:04 GMT -8
Post by Olspher on Apr 22, 2010 14:48:04 GMT -8
Very relevant to my thinking and life at the moment. Thank you for introducing me to it.
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May 21, 2010 22:15:34 GMT -8
Post by doajda on May 21, 2010 22:15:34 GMT -8
"The great river makes no sound, but the small brook crackles loud"
Some Chinese guy
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
Confucius
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May 23, 2010 3:19:57 GMT -8
Post by Olspher on May 23, 2010 3:19:57 GMT -8
Oh! I'm very glad that you put in a quote by Some Chinese Guy, I'm and avid reader of his and just finished his chief work: Some Chinese Book. Profoundly changed my life that book did.  |
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Jul 11, 2010 1:27:12 GMT -8
Post by doajda on Jul 11, 2010 1:27:12 GMT -8
There is an astronomer lecturing how the world orbits the sun and how the sun orbits the center of the galaxy and stuff then a women says:
"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise". The scientist then asked "What's the tortoise standing on?" and the woman replied "You're very clever, young man, very clever! But it's turtles all the way down!."
also, "YOU MUST CUT DOWN THE MIGHTIEST TREE IN THE FOREST... WIIIIIIIITH... A HERRING!"
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Oct 2, 2010 23:49:51 GMT -8
Post by Olspher on Oct 2, 2010 23:49:51 GMT -8
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galileo
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