October 2010
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Philosophers Agree: Existence of God and Nature of...
“Despite the fact that more and more people are comfortable “coming out” as atheists, the word is still very much associated with being immoral, or at the very least amoral. This, of course, despite the fact that there is neither logical nor empirical reason to draw that conclusion. Ever since Plato’s dialogue, philosophers have agreed that gods are simply irrelevant to morality, regardless of...
September 2010
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“All is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom....”
– Crime And Punishment, Ch. 1, Fyodor Dostoyevski. (via miguee-e)
“Suffering… is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human...”
– The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan.
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“To be sure: except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into that...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. (via db183)
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“If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via pursuingenlightenment)
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“You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need...”
– Franz Kafka (via oceanofmind)
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....”
– Anaïs Nin (via caroinwonderland)
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I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison...
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am...
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“In despairing over something he was really despairing over himself, and he wants...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (via exemplarofmars)
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
(via bfargz)
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“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary...”
– Albert Camus (via desaparecidos)
“…the Other is present everywhere, below me, above me, in the neighboring rooms,...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (via modern-prometheus)
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“A man who doesn’t know he’s in prison can never escape. As soon as you realise...”
– William S. Burroughs (via babaracus1982)
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“I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.”
– Carl Gustav Jung (via ratak-monodosico)
“There is nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that...”
– Daniel Quinn in Ishmael
(via fuckyeahrandombritishindiebands)
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“As a moral atheist you have a number of rights and responsibilities. These...”
– I Am An Atheist: Rights and Responsibilities (via ryking)
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities.
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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via vicariousrockstar)
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.”
– Rousseau, The Social Contract.
“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and...”
– Bruce Lee (via thumbprnt)
“Is this all that i am is there nothing more?”
– Kirk, paraphrasing Spock’s understanding of what an all-powerful V’Ger is missing. “Star Trek,” 1979. It’s a question we should all be asking ourselves from time to time. (via beyondthegeek)
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On the Sufferings of the World by Arthur...
Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and originates in needs and necessities inseparable from life itself, as serving no purpose at all and the result of mere chance. Each separate misfortune, as it comes, seems, no doubt, to be...
“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer →
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“Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life, deserving of being called...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, On the Concept of Irony (via pyrrhosrepublic)
“If a man endeavours to … persuade himself to accept of his own accord what...”
– Arrian’s discourses of Epictetus, Fragment 8
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“A free man?—There is no such thing! All men are slaves; some, slaves of money;...”
– Hecabe 1 to Agamemnon. Euripides, Hecabe 864
“No one is free except Zeus.”
– Cratos to Hephaestus. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 50.
“It was thus I learned, after having been so many years treated for disorders...”
– The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
“But what’s to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via dostoyevsky) (via teenagevictory, trashingdays)
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“If I were a tree among trees, a cat among animals, this life would have a...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via omgmattsmith)
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“there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
– Hamlet to Rosencrantz.
Since nothing can be perceived except through the senses—and since all individuals sense, and therefore perceive, things differently—there is no absolute truth, only relative truth.
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“but, at this juncture, when the will is most imperiled, art approaches, as a...”
– friedrich nietzsche, the birth of tragedy out of the spirit of music, ch. 7 (1872) (via nosex) 