Tag: philosophy
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September 12, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
Cogito ergo sum.
Rene Descartes originally wrote, "Je pense donc je suis" in his native French in Discourse on Method (1637). He later uses a Latin version including "Cogito ergo . . .
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July 10, 2008 02:34 PM EDT --
Is searching for joy in tragedy a bad thing?
A question I read a few minutes ago. What do you think? Is it okay to search for joy or fun in tragedy?
At first I thought it's definitely fine to . . .
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June 23, 2008 09:42 AM EDT --
"People who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music." ~ George Carlin
Were YOU among those who listened? . . .
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November 11, 2009 05:08 PM EST --
Boiled in a wicked sea of evil, you who came before me
Serpent beasts, gnashing bloody teeth
Black smoke rising from the pit; I wander forlorn
Looking into . . .
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May 11, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
**All quoted information from "The Experience of Philosophy" by Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin. Additional information is from class notes, discussion and interpretation.**
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September 04, 2009 04:18 PM EDT --
A small aeroplane just flew up your nose
Give it some time, lay down in this pile
And make yourself a drink. Don’t spill it,
The beans is beans it seems . . .
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August 04, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
Name one thing you regret doing in your life or wish you had done differently.
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September 13, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
I am going to go with Imagine by John Lennon.
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September 18, 2007 10:46 PM EDT --
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body---but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "...holy s***...what a ride!"
Don't let . . .
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October 12, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
some flow slowly
and gently
down the stream
. . .
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November 12, 2007 06:26 PM EST --
I can honestly say that I have no regrets. I don't even believe in regrets. I think they are just life lessons. Some may be mistakes, but how can you grow as a person and become . . .
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November 16, 2007 08:00 AM EST --
attitude:
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks . . .
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December 02, 2007 02:44 PM EST --
"The soul has to go on loving in the emptiness, or at least to go on wanting to love, though it may only be with an infinitesimal part of itself."
- Simone Weil
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February 22, 2008 05:07 PM EST --
Was thinking the other day of the millions, the billions, of people who've died. Who've faced death in pain or with expectation of an afterlife or with fear that there's no . . .
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June 08, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
"Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?" -- 1 Corinthians 3:16
In the Bible, we are told many times by Jesus and by Paul that the kingdom . . .
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June 20, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
"The most solid advice. . for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat and when you sleep, really sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, . . .
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June 30, 2008 09:22 PM EDT --
I have read a lot of philosophy and self-help books and books about various religions. Well, let's face it, I've read a lot of anything that could be enclosed on pages with the use of some sort . . .
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July 11, 2008 09:58 AM EDT --
Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,
and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and
Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To . . .
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October 27, 2008 08:27 AM EDT --
Today my grandmother, whom we affectionately call Nana, turns 100 years old.
Nana has led a long and interesting life. Originally from the Azores (the Portuguese islands off the northern . . .
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November 06, 2008 02:41 PM EST --
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
-Henry Drummond
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