Lately, I have been thinking about philosophy, one of my favorite subjects to debate on, and I decided this would make a good thread. To put it simple, I am asking this: Who is your favorite philosopher(s) and/or quote(s)? And to make it fair, I'll start Philosopher(s) Socrates (From Ancient Greece) Niccollo Machiavelli (From Renaissance Italy) Umberto Eco (Modern Philosopher) Quote(s) "Let him who would move the world first move himself." - Socrates "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." - Niccollo Machiavelli "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made by our own mad attempt to interpret it as the underlying truth" - Umberto Eco
"What if all the world you think you know, is an elaborate dream?"- Trent Reznor "There is no spoon." - The Matrix
What if the absolute truth is found, then there would be no more need to philosophize about things anymore.
Quotes: "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other b******* die for his" -Patton "A Communist is someone who reads the works of Marx and Lenin, an Anti-Communist is someone who understands the works of Marx and Lenin." Raegan (I think) "Putting a farmer between two lawyers is like putting a fish between two cats." Paraphrase -Benjamin Franklin "A single death is a tragedy, one million deaths is a statistic." Stalin "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstien "What if all that I see and seem, all nothing but a dream?" Edgar Allen Poe " I don't really have favoite philosipher, because I haven't studied them...maybe Freud if I had to pick one...
Quotes : "Anger is a Gift" - Zack de la Rocha "Shoot, your only killing a man." Supposedly Che's last words "And your still searching for these answers, they're not inside your wrists!" Rise Against "Innocence on a ball and Chain" Audioslave FAVOURITE! "Like autumn leaves, His sense fell from him. An empty glass of himself shattered somewhere within. His thoughts like a hundred moths trapped in a lampshade, somewhere within. Their wings banging and burning on through endless nights. Forever awake he lies shaking and starving, praying for someone to turn off the light. " - Born of a Broken Man -- Rage Against the Machine
Quotes Here's some of my favorites. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - General George Patton Jr "Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government" - Winston Churchill "Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live." - Adolf Hitler (I don't like the man but this quote is extremely true.) "It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau
"When all written documents can be falsified and our memories eventually fail us...what then is left of the truth? What then is left of the past?" "What if everything you see is more than what you see – the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.”
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - Patton "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future." - Stephen E. Ambrose "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy "Facts are stupid things." - Ronald Reagan "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin Roosevelt "Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers." - Voltaire
