Quote by a Philosopher

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His name is Erich Fromm, I do not remember the work where he wrote it, or the exact words, but it sounds like this:

I am not an engineer, or artist.... etc... I am just a human being.

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Same vein:

"I Think Therefore I Am" - René Descartes (Je pense, donc je suis)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
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“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” Plato

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"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand." - Plato

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"We appreciate your business, but, please, give us a break. Your account is overdue ten months. That means we’ve carried you longer than your mother did."

(Morreall)

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Lol !

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. - Muhammad Iqbal

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“It is okay for a child to play with the mother’s breasts, but not the father’s testicles.”
― Guinea

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“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on” - George Santayana

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The purpose of human life is that his/her soul becomes aware ot itself. (Excuse me, I do not remember who said it... Kant... Hegel... hmmmm...?)

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I had to google:
To Hegel, absolute knowledge arises when the mind comes to know itself. In other words, when the mind realizes that reality is of its own creation and is not beyond the mind.... from an abstract: https://academic.oup.com/book/468/chapter-abstract/135245379?redirectedFrom=fulltext

From the same googledump:

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I hear this a lot in my faith; have yet to quote it. :)

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i don't know if this quote originated with ravi Zacharias or if its just who im remembering I heard it from:

(this is in no way meant to criticize philosophy as a field of study or as a dedicated approach to life, rather it speaks to a particular aspect of life that's worth considering)

"the philosopher is a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn't there. the theologian finds the cat."

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re: "the philosopher is a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn't there. the theologian finds the cat."... The physicist finds the philosopher and the theologian and locks them in a chamber with a radioactive source and declares God is neither dead nor alive. God, in His infinite wisdom and love gives the physicist a black cat. - tailor

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde

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“Ipsa scientia potestas est.

Knowledge itself is power.”

― Francis Bacon

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"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." - Carl Sandburg

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Not Recomended for persons under the age of 40

When I drink alchocolic drinks I feel no pain, I have optimistic thoughts, this world seems beautiful. But... people around me despise this kind of my nature.

Philosophical quotation by myself.

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Found this quote by spiritualist Don Miguel Ruiz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Miguel_Ruiz

“The real you is loving, joyful and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.” :)

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I think it was Rilke who said: "When I drink a one glass, I become another person. And that person likes to drink soooooo very much."

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Found a poem by Rilke that's a bit more complex but mentions drink: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/world-was-in-the-face-of-the-beloved/

“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature” – Spinoza...

This was, in essence though not in name, our lesson for this past week in our Emotional Resilience class Chapter Six (and perhaps other chapters as well)... https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/self-reliance/course-materials/emotional-resilience-self-reliance-course-video-resources?lang=eng My second time going through these lessons... I'm in charge of refreshments tonight :)

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Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It.

- Daniel Klein

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” -
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

- Albert Einstein

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"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." - Joseph Campbell

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In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

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"Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination" - Immanuel Kant

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A very intriguing topic to talk or think about: "Is the reality an illusion?". or "Are we living in a simulation?" LOL

“I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.

― Rene Descartes

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

- Albert Einstein


All laws are simulations of reality.

John C. Lilly


“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

― Niels Bohr

...and so on and so forth...

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Some (mostly) interesting thoughts in this article on reality: https://philosophynow.org/issues/61/What_Is_The_Nature_Of_Reality

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau