Philosophical quotes that inspire...

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha

Do not rebuke the mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

– King Solomon

“A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…“Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

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(shivers)

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel

Think higher, feel deeper.
Elie Wiesel

From The Ego and its Own; ‘political liberalism’.

This greater insight into the genesis of any ‘state’ - that it is only made possible by these terms - demands either a radical restructuring of the entire institution so that it does not require this essential conflict in order to exist… or the complete abandonment and dismissal of any attempt to establish it at all.

But this decision does not rest with the bourgeois, for they are not the makers of the state. Rather they emerge after it’s established, after it’s made possible out of the abundance of material productivity and wealth. And yet, ironically, it serves their interests more than the interests of those who made them possible in the first place.

The fundamental sham of the ‘state’ is just this embarrassing if not comical piece of logic, which stirner lays out quite masterfully throughout the essay(s). The strangeness of this insight has never struck anyone as much as the anarchist, the one who through virtue of reason and in such good taste simply refuses to participate in such an unprincipled sham.

And if and when the anarchist declares himself a nihilist in the company of philosophers and politicians, this is more of a general statement of withholding commitment to what these perceive as problems that can be addressed without first resolving the problem of the ‘state’. Hence, philosophical activity that does not involve itself here, first and foremost, is generically unworthy of receiving any real effort from the anarchist. since if the fundamental problem of the ‘state’ is not first resolved, no amount of philosophical floundering over the vast array of social, political and economic issues produced from within this essentially problematic superstructure will ever come to any resolution.

The kind of philosophical speculation one indulges in more often betrays the degree of attention and insight they are capable of having of problems that are actually worth any attention at all. This is expressed well when Marx says ‘the philosophers have only interpreted the world… the point is to change it.’ but of course this is a comment made exclusively to the proletariat, for it is in his power alone to do this. Again, the bourgeois neither brings the state into existence or holds it together… but emerges as a by-product of the accumulated mistakes and errors of the working classes. Therefore only those who produce the ‘state’ have the power to change it. Or I should say ‘correct the errors they have made throughout history.’

Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die."
– Jacques Derrida

“Nietzsche was not a social theorist, but a poet, a rebel, and innovator. His aristocracy was neither of birth nor of purse; it was the spirit. In that respect Nietzsche was an anarchist, and all true anarchists were aristocrats.” - Emma Goldman

All in moderation. Especially moderation.

My fondest memories of being a philosopher are always of the moments I discovered one philosopher telling another one off in one of his books/essays. Really that’s the best stuff… not the philosophy, but how livid those stiff ass renaissance muhfuckas get when a’nuh muhfucka don’t agree with his fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason. Hey but I bet Hegel couldn’t tell schop off like that.

“Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.”
– Mike Tyson

"When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you’ "

Nietzche

twistedsifter.com/videos/cat-st … the-abyss/

When asked what we will do for eternity in heaven, R. Lichtenstein replies:

"After a quadrillion years of singing ‘god’s’ praises, I expect the unfortunate denizens of heaven will wish for sweet death to relieve them of the unremitting boredom.

Why ‘god’ is so insecure that ‘he’ needs quite so much praise — even more than Trump! — is a question those unfortunates should perhaps ask ‘him’ on day one."

Could it be that the old geezer hasn’t heard yet, that God is dead?
-Nietzsche

Acceptance is not toleration or passivity - it makes you radically alive and passionately engaged with this astonishing dream world.

Jeff Foster

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

  • Foucault, Anti-Oeudipus

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Happiness never decreases by being shared [ Buddha ]


A physicist is just an atoms way of looking at itself [ Niels Bohr ]


Communism doesnt work because people like to own stuff [ Frank Zappa ]


Time is more important than money because you can never get it back [ surreptitious75 ]