Philosophical quotes that inspire...

I await it with bated breath, Meno.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

  • Epicurus

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The cosmos would be fairly chaotic if its laws could not operate without the sanction of human belief.

© Sri Yukteshwar

Yo Epi, but was it wrong to hope for it in the first place?? Maybe you wouldn’t have had it if you dint desire it dude.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Arc, this is a general answer, for what I originally intended, on review, it is beyond scope: waiting for a more opportune moment

You Epi lol. You made a good point here I think. Perhaps Epicurus was speaking more about hedonism here ~ too much desiring, too much over-the-top hoping. When we focus too much on what we do not have, we lose focus and the truth of what we do already have.

I do not think that hoping for something is necessarily wrong unless we are wasting time and energy on something which we, on some level, know that we can never have but we choose to ignore the truth of it.

But I do intuit that there is such a thing as too much hope and not enough going after

I think that Epi was basically talking about balance here…the epicurean as opposed to the hedonist…the fine balance of enjoying perhaps something lesser but good now as opposed to craving it all and not appreciating THIS moment.

“Don’t kneel. Never kneel.”

  • Marcus Bakker

“I think, therefore I am”

I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite.
And while I rise from my own globe to others
And penetrate ever further through the eternal field,
That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

  • Giordano Bruno

“I may not always come when you call, but Im always on time.”

The Convo

“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”

Plato

Something to ponder. lol

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”~ Plutarch

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”

Hubert Reeves

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.” - Kierkegaard

That is brilliant and truth especially now.

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Picture quote.

Amen to that or you transplant the flower!!!

Hi Artimas.

“A revolutionary age is an age of action; ours is the age of advertisement and publicity. Nothing ever happens but there is immediate publicity everywhere. In the present age a rebellion is, of all things, the most unthinkable. Such an expression of strength would seem ridiculous to the calculating intelligence of our times. On the other hand a political virtuoso might bring off a feat almost as remarkable. He might write a manifesto suggesting a general assembly at which people should decide upon a rebellion, and it would be so carefully worded that even the censor would let it pass. At the meeting itself he would be able to create the impression that his audience had rebelled, after which they would all go quietly home–having spent a very pleasant evening.”- Kierkegaard, On The Nature Of The Philosophy Forum Renaissance

“this sort of thing has got to be stopped. bad philosophers are like slum landlords. it’s my job to put them out of business.” - wittgenstein

dayum!