Philosophy Quotes

[Durrypoo Ov Fire]

One of my favorite quotes

"For any day that stings, two better days it brings" by Manowar  

[o0 Mystic Mama 0o]

"The world we have created is a product of our thinking. To change it, we must first change our thinking."

-Einstein


This is on my Algebra II teacher's wall.. It fits him, and I love the quote ^^  

[Wirekittin the nefarious]

What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

T.S. Eliot

Kinda emo, but it explains my belief of hell.  

[Ralelend]

One of my favourites is from Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. It's so often misquoted:

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the sentiment of soulless conditions. It is the opiate of the people."  

[PhilosophyMind]

Ralelend

One of my favourites is from Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. It's so often misquoted:

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the sentiment of soulless conditions. It is the opiate of the people."

Is it "opiate" or "opium"?  

[Ralelend]

PhilosophyMind

Ralelend

One of my favourites is from Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. It's so often misquoted:

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the sentiment of soulless conditions. It is the opiate of the people."

Is it "opiate" or "opium"?

I think it depends on the translation. I was typing from memory, but it means the same thing.

Looking it up on the Marxists' Internet Archive, they have it as: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
The thing that irks me is when people leave out that sentence just before "It is the opium of the people." Which really changes the meaning and misses the point Marx was making. The complete work in question is on that site as well, if anyone's interested in reading.  

[PhilosophyMind]

Ralelend

PhilosophyMind

Ralelend

One of my favourites is from Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. It's so often misquoted:

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the sentiment of soulless conditions. It is the opiate of the people."

Is it "opiate" or "opium"?

I think it depends on the translation. I was typing from memory, but it means the same thing.

Looking it up on the Marxists' Internet Archive, they have it as: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
The thing that irks me is when people leave out that sentence just before "It is the opium of the people." Which really changes the meaning and misses the point Marx was making. The complete work in question is on that site as well, if anyone's interested in reading.

Awe, I was merely curious. Prior, I had only seen the version with "opium" (from my Civ teacher my sophmore year of high school and from the Sophie's World journal).

Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out.  

[Mallorys Wedgie Friend]

Philosophy is the continuation of the knowledge of nothing.  

[The Rogue Doll]

"Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it." I dunno

"There will be a time in which it is as though you never were." Plato

"Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines." Dunno.  

[o0 Mystic Mama 0o]

"Childhood is the ability to dream and think without the fear of rational thought." - Me whee  

[Isayo]

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -- Vince Lombardi  

[Stallin]

"Beware when the great god lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk." - Emerson  

[Aki Yasu]

Cicero:
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

H. L. Mencken:
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

William James:
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

These are just a few of my favorite ones

 

[nightlight]

heh, believe it or not... I had a fortune cookie tell me the other day 'Every time someone thinks, a supposedly stable part of the world begins to fall apart.'

go figure... >.>