Philo + Sophia = What?

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Fun for the hollydaze–9 quotes from Byrnes “The 2,548 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said” (2006).

  1. There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher said it.–Cicero
  2. Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.–Karl Marx
  3. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.–Mencken
  4. In many ways the saying “Know thyself” is lacking. Better to know other people–Menander
  5. Only the shallow know themselves.–Oscar Wilde
  6. Logic is in the eye of the logician.–Gloria Steinem
  7. All truths are half truths.–Whitehead
  8. Plato is a bore.–Nietzsche
  9. Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.–Tolstoy
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The best.

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Thanks for your input. Those three are good ones!

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Ah, and what is “the real world”?

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Will the real world please raise your hand.

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A popular 90s television show.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSYBRxr04BM[/youtube]

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Probably the most true.

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Why,the materialist/physicalist view of the world you know that! :wink:

Here I have my own quote.
clears throat

Just because something is quoted; even if it’s a populer quote, that doesn’t make it true. -Stoic Guardian

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TC, I liked the vid.
SG, Aw, geeze, and why can’t the physical/material include the creative/spiritual? Spinoza thought so.
Liz, I agree.

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Last 9 quotes:

  1. Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.–Plato
  2. In a fight between you and the world, bet on the world.–Kafka
  3. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.–Plato
  4. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.–Tolstoy
  5. The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.–attributed to Freud
  6. There ain’t no answer. There ain’t going to be no answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.–Gertrude Stein
    (Geeze Gertie, I thought the answer was 42!)
  7. Sin is geographical.–Russell
    (Can you show its heaviest density by pins on a map of the globe?)
  8. Humankind cannot bear much reality.–T. S. Eliot
    (“You want the truth; you can’t handle the truth.”)
  9. Only dead fish go with the flow–anon.
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This is the only reason I ever plan on engaging in politics.