February 2012
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“You will never look as ugly or as beautiful than in the mirror of philosophy.
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– L.P. (via rickycisco)
December 2011
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I'm having a nihilistic crisis here, can someone...
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“Nor can a selfish heart easily conceive the heights of friendship and generosity”
– David Hume (via jenkemaddict)
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“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for...”
– Dalai Lama
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“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
– John Stuart Mill (via theworldmaynevrknow)
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“I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter...”
– Benedictus de Spinoza
November 2011
17 posts
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“…It is self-evident that the world is not good and not evil, let alone the best...”
– Human, All Too Human Part I by Nietzsche (via thedailynietzsche)
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Wikipedia Selected Article Week 45
Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences. No mysterious miracles or wholly random events occur.
The principal consequence of deterministic philosophy is that free will (except as defined in strict compatibilism) becomes an illusion. It is a popular misconception that...
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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point,...”
– Karl Marx
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“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are...”
– Carl Sagan
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“You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though...”
– Marcus Aurelius
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“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind...”
– Carl Sagan
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Gandhi
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“Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well...”
– Peter Wessel Zapffe
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“Man can do what he wants but he cannot want what he wants.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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“When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of...”
– Peter Wessel Zapffe
We are all going to die.
youmaybeoffended asked: Handsome :3
Anonymous asked: duuude you're quoting eckhart tolle?
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We are all just atoms and particles.
We are a bunch of atoms and particles, bundled up together in such a way that I exist. “I” is merely this collection of atoms having the ability to perceive and react to the world in numerous semi-intelligent ways (we call them senses).
The entire universe is a collection of atoms and particles. Parts of the universe is perceiving itself. The universe itself, is self-aware.
How do...
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“The reason why you don’t put your hand in the fire is not because of fear,...”
– Eckhart Tolle
Anonymous asked: Your interested in philosophy, but what else are you interested in? You single? What kind of music, literature, cinemas ext do you like? Favorite tumblrs? Whos the person behind the tumblr?
October 2011
26 posts
thedayafteryesterday asked: Also, i am not genuinely agnostic towards God. My agnosticism depends on the definition of God you choose to propose. If it's the teapot - then i can't really argue for any position, and must remain agnostic - since i can't handle the burden of proof. However, if you were to argue for a theistic God, then I'm sure that I would able to argue that they do not exist.
“To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (via philphys)
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“Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule....”
– Immanuel Kant
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“Don’t fear god,
Don’t worry about death;
What is good is easy to...”
– Epicurus
thedayafteryesterday asked: But then how do you refute a deist's preposition that there is 'something' out there which begun the universe and set it in motion, with it's physical laws, but then does no intervene afterwards? Also, the point stands that Dawkins refers to Agnostics as wistful fence sitters, and talks about Agnosticism in terms of probabilities, on a continuum. Agnostics, like myself,...
“Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake,...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via reblog-man)
thedayafteryesterday asked: Yes, but to go with the teapot analogy of Bertrand Russell's, I think that if one ought to propose the existence of a deity, without any discernible features, then you would have to admit your ignorance and take an Agnostic position. However, if someone proposed a theistic God then you could use material evidence to deny their claims (i.e. 'The earth was created in six days' - cite...
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“Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge...”
– Anton Chekhov (via philphys)
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“To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is.”
– Nietzsche
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circumventions asked: I didn't say that the world without religion wouldn't be any better.
Anonymous asked: fuck you
circumventions asked: That anon overdid it a bit, but I agree that Dawkins is to be taken with great reserves. He attacks religion as if he were angry at it for some reason, and this leads to fallacies of judgement. For example, he interprets the XX century conflicts in Ireland as a conflict caused by the mere difference in confession, while the situation is much more complex. An Irishman I know said it was also about...
Anonymous asked: If you consider Richard Dawkins a serious philosopher, then what do you make of his arguments 'against' Agnosticism (if they can even be called that) that puts forward in 'The God Delusion'?
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“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do....”
– Stephen F. Roberts
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“Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins...”
– Cristopher Hitchens
Anonymous asked: You must be the most boring person there is. No one really talks like that, be yourself.
Anonymous asked: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA RICHARD DAWKINS AS A SERIOUS PHILOSOPHER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Anonymous asked: This may not be a philosophical question, but what do you personally think the difference between physical and psycological pain is? And why physical pain is taken more seriously than psycological?
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I see people suggesting other books to read on the...
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If you are interested in the question of God and...
It really illuminates and explains why God, or any god for that matter, almost certainly don’t exist. Very interesting read.
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“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never...”
– Richard Dawkins
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“What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with...”
– Richard Dawkins