Philosophical quotes that inspire...

riv-----where the hell are you coming from

“On this perfect day, when everything is ripening and not only the grape turns brown, the eye of the sun just fell upon my life: I looked back, I looked forward, and never saw so many and such good things at once. It was not for nothing that I buried my forty-fourth year today; I had the right to bury it; whatever was life in it has been saved, is immortal. The first book of the Revaluation of All Values, the Songs of Zarathustra, the Twilight of the Idols, my attempt to philosophize with a hammer—all presents of this year, indeed of its last quarter! How could I fail to be grateful to my whole life?—and so I tell my life to myself.”

-Nietzsche

"It was during the years of my lowest vitality that I ceased to be a pessimist. The instinct of self-preservation forbade me a philosophy of poverty and discouragement. As it were, that is how those years appear to me now. I soon discovered life anew…including myself. I turned my will to health, to life, into a philosophy … into the will to power.”

-Nietzsche

“I want to live” susan sontag

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
–Lao Tzu

Hot Damn! :laughing:

I love that

:laughing: What he said or what I responded?

That is soooooooo true though - the things which I read that give me the shivers are the things which I need to hear, which are truth (for me).

you figure it out arc…duh

Is duh an acronym for something? :laughing:

Thank you. I will and I love that.
And what you just said - might come just a wee bit closer to a god that I might believe in if I wasn’t agnostic…“you figure it out”. Now that would be a god who actually values what it is which was created, in my book.

arc–I think we are closer than you think…which is nice

Oh, I know that we are little reptile. I just stop “before” belief.

arc please look at the father god post…you can make up something you believe in and call it a god…most people will not accept this but who gives a ------

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

Albert Camus.

“Camus can do but Sartre is smartre.”

Homer Simpson.

See. You can give good posts. See my poem on Sisyphus. I had not read Camus when I wrote it.

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I din’t do anything - Bill clinton.

I did , what all I could do - G.W. BUSH

We can do . together … YES WE CAN - OBAMA

WHAT TO DO ? - Next president

Nothing is left to do ! - Future president

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anaïs Nin

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
~St. Augustine

does the word men include women

I’m not sure, little reptile. He might have been a bit patriarchal or simply focused on his own past.
BUT, men does include all of humanity in my book.