Pascal’s Wagar
Pascal wus clever kitteh hu wus laik: “I am not knoin if teh Ceiling Cat is reel.” Oh noes! But Pascal was thinkin an thinkin, an he wus laik “If I is beleefin in teh Ceiling Cat, and he is reel, I will be gettin cheezburger. But if I has no beleefin in teh Ceiling Cat, and he is reel, I will be getting pwned. If there no Ceiling Cat, no matter anywai. I think I is beleefin in teh Ceiling Cat.”
Owr Grownd Roolz
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Plato
Teh Allegory ob teh Cabe
O hai. Ai explanez Play Doh alley gory 4 you. Yus taek the doh n roll it up inna snakie n maek shaddoe onna wawl wif it. Iz reel? NO! Shaddoe nawt reel, ur snakie nawt reel. Eben the reel snakie nawt reel. Dat ends owr beginnin cors in Philozophee.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Necessity... the mother of invention.
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Aristotle
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
IM IN UR WASTELAND BURYING UR DEAD
april hates u, makes lilacs, u no can has.
april in ur memoriez, making ur desire.
spring rain in ur dull rootzes.
Epicurus
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
William of Ockham (Ockham's Razor)
Judging among competing philosophical or scientific theories, all other things being equal, we should prefer the simplest one.
Alfred North Whitehead
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
John Locke
The great question (about power) is who should have it.
Immanuel Kant
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
John Stuart Mill (hover)
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
William James
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Henry David Thoreau
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Rene Descartes
Confucius
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
h/t kishik for Sula
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Buddha
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