Philosophical quotes that inspire...

"It was during the years of my lowest vitality that I ceased to be a pessimist. The instinct of self-preservation forbade me a philosophy of poverty and discouragement. As it were, that is how those years appear to me now. I soon discovered life anew…including myself. I turned my will to health, to life, into a philosophy … into the will to power.”

-Nietzsche

“I want to live” susan sontag

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
–Lao Tzu

Hot Damn! :laughing:

I love that

:laughing: What he said or what I responded?

That is soooooooo true though - the things which I read that give me the shivers are the things which I need to hear, which are truth (for me).

you figure it out arc…duh

Is duh an acronym for something? :laughing:

Thank you. I will and I love that.
And what you just said - might come just a wee bit closer to a god that I might believe in if I wasn’t agnostic…“you figure it out”. Now that would be a god who actually values what it is which was created, in my book.

arc–I think we are closer than you think…which is nice

Oh, I know that we are little reptile. I just stop “before” belief.

arc please look at the father god post…you can make up something you believe in and call it a god…most people will not accept this but who gives a ------

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

Albert Camus.

“Camus can do but Sartre is smartre.”

Homer Simpson.

See. You can give good posts. See my poem on Sisyphus. I had not read Camus when I wrote it.

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I din’t do anything - Bill clinton.

I did , what all I could do - G.W. BUSH

We can do . together … YES WE CAN - OBAMA

WHAT TO DO ? - Next president

Nothing is left to do ! - Future president

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anaïs Nin

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
~St. Augustine

does the word men include women

I’m not sure, little reptile. He might have been a bit patriarchal or simply focused on his own past.
BUT, men does include all of humanity in my book.

In the life, there are no solutions. There are forces in motion. Those must be created, and the solutions follow.

[i]Dans la vie, il n’y a pas de solutions. Il’y a des forces en marche. I faut les créer, et les solutions suivent.

  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “Vol de Nuit”[/i]

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon, Ballerina

Truth