Philosophical quotes that inspire...

Well, it is a bit hard singling out a good philosophical quote that will inspire, so instead I will include a link to an eBook with many such quotes @ bookbooster.com/newage.htm

But being creative and spontaneous maybe I will just type something inspirational here right now. “Never let your fear decide your fate…” This bears direct relevance to me because since December 2013, after an accidental mega overdose after fourteen days of no sleep (one does not think straight after that many days with no rest that they will try anything to go to sleep), and having survived a near death incident as a result, I was diagnosed with anxiety/panic attack disorder as a result of the side effect of what I swallowed. This has seemingly impeded my work path and career but I persevered. I continue to work in high pressure situations and by some miracle that I cannot explain I have not failed in any of my duties as of yet the last 10 months I have been at the job. I cannot let the sheer extreme fear and terror of a panic attack (which lasts for three hours) get to me and I am still hopeful that with time my thyroid gland will revert back to normal and anxiety + panic attacks will become something of the past. Having anxiety happen at random intervals is rather disturbing but the minute I let my fear of a relapse take control of my life then that is the day I might as well call it game over, finito, fim, the end! So I persevere with the occasional erratic ludicrous thoughts and try my best not to take centre stage in things because fame in itself triggers my anxiety (which by the way is almost crippling).

So, having said all that, here are some quotes typed at the spur of the moment:
“Treasure routines because one day you may find out that you have none.”
“Don’t be a show off because undesired attention could be unpleasant.”
“Never give up on attaining your uttermost passion for a man/woman without values is worse off than a criminal with passion.”
“Cherish friendships of old because as time passes encapsulating moments long gone are luxuries few attain.”
“Love with purpose, love with passion, love with reason, and if it fits an idealised notion than thou are blessed indeed.”

I could go on forever typing quotes…

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
― Hunter S. Thompson

I will smile,
some korean song.

video is fine too!
watch it on youtube.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.

  • Oscar Wilde

I wake to sleep,
and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke

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 at what happens.

Khalil Gibran

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Michel de Montaigne

How did it go, I can’t remember.

A modest god would not want praise, and a vain god would not deserve it.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~
Leo Tolstoy

Truth is a great flirt.
~Franz Liszt

oh how observant Liszt was.

I’m scrolling a thread at a forum where a bunch of hyper-european hardons are all sitting around the campfire bashing the middle east and then suddenly I see this:

… and I almost fell out of my chair. You know that sound when the record player needle scratches across the record. That’s what I heard. I’m still wiping off the coffee I spit all my computer screen.

It’s not just that the comment was funny, but the entire context in which it was said. You literally see everybody drop their beers and stare at her in silence. Oh my god that was funny.

This dude was a beast.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhazen

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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ”

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

The Ancients and prior (and not the Classicists) gave us the foundation for modern Politics and The Sciences etc., which the Classicists tailored to suit their needs later on.

“I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working at turning myself into a seer. You won’t understand any of this, and I’m almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It’s really not my fault.”- Arthur Rimbaud

[size=200]Remember this people… before you go feeling all inferior on our ass[/size]

The middle east used to be the factory of mathematics, until some Muslim arch-bishop-type got it into his head that mathematics was the devil. Ever since, theyve become mathematically inept.

That art thou–Sanskrit maxim.

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights and Other Stories