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#philosophic

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We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.


Robert Anton Wilson


#philosophy #philosophical

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.


Ray Bradbury


#digression #philosophy #reading #wit #writing

The best is the enemy of good.


Voltaire


#best #desires #good #greed #insatiability

They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on


Terry Pratchett


#philosophical

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)


Charles Stross


#humour #philosophical

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#philosophical

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.


R.D. Ronald


#reflection #philosophical

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.


R.D. Ronald


#philosophical-musings #visual-moments #visualization

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#eyes #find #fit #follow #forgive

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.


Stanley Fish


#assume #based #convictions #incorrect #know






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