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[edit] The Insomniac Philosopher

[edit] There is a frozen sea within us. Philosophy is an axe.

Everything you believe is questionable. How deeply have you questioned it? The uncritical acceptance of beliefs handed down to you by parents, teachers, politicians, and religious leaders is dangerous. Many of these beliefs are simply false. Some of them are lies designed to control you. Even when what has been handed down is true, it is not your truth. To merely accept anything without questioning it is to be somebody else's puppet, a second-hand person.

Beliefs can be handed down. Knowledge can perhaps be handed down. Wisdom can never be handed down. The goal of philosophy is wisdom. Trying to hand down philosophy is unphilosophical.

Wisdom requires questioning what is questionable. Because everything is questionable, wisdom requires questioning everything. That is what philosophy is: the art of questioning everything.

(The Experience of Philosophy, Kolak, Martin).

[edit] Other Quotes...

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone... but they've always worked for me.

-Hunter S. Thompson

It is better to be feared instead of loved, if you cannot be both.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

-Shari R. Barr

I'm not really a rebel, but I take chances. I have a good time and I live life the way I want to live it. I get pissed and I do stupid things and I forget shit and I knock stuff over and I fall in love and I kiss girls and they kiss me back.

-Colin Farrell

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggy..." until you can find a rock.

-Will Rogers

When it comes to romance, the important thing is to win the argument.

-Scott Adams

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

-Ernest Hemingway

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

-Galileo Galielei

To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom.

-Proverbs

The trouble with philosophy, I think, is that it is much harder than it looks to Scientists and Artists, for it shares--and MUST share--the aspirations and methods of both.

-Daniel C. Dennet

YITBOS (talk) 20:31, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

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