Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75. —Benjamin Franklin Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. —Arthur C. Clark Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been. John Greenleaf Willittier I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Bruce Lee And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche Don't let schooling interfere with your education-Mark Twain A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. — John F. Kennedy It is no measure of health to be well—adjusted to a profoundly sick society. — Jiddu Krisnamurti Every man dies, but not every man truly lives. — William Wallace Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. — Plato Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go. — Oscar Wilde Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend? — Abraham Lincoln To love is to recognize yourself in another. — Ecküart Tolle Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. — Tryon Edwards If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint—Exupery They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money. — Indian Proverb And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. —Kahlil Gibran Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. — William Saroyan I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. — John Lennon Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a free, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. — Hunter S. Thompson Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — Lao Tzu Dalai Llama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, said: Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. "I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off — Chuck Palahniuk The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are. — HL Mencken
For you are a holy people to YHWH your God, and God has chosen you to be his treasured people from all the nations that are on the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 14:2 - G-d.
Common sense,", as its name shows, and "practicality" as its name does not show, are largely matters of talking so that one is readily understood. — benjamin whorf
the knowledge of many things does not teach understanding — heraklit
"Materiality" derives from linguistic patterns of certain languages, like mass nouns and formless items plus forms, as in english "sticks of wood" and "forms of life". — anok
The error of free will. Today we no longer have any tolerance for the idea of "free will": we see it only too clearly for what it really is — the foulest of all theological fictions, intended to make mankind "responsible" in a religious sense — that is, dependent upon priests. Here I simply analyze the psychological assumptions behind any attempt at "making responsible." Whenever responsibility is assigned, it is usually so that judgment and punishment may follow. Becoming has been deprived of its innocence when any acting-the-way-you-did is traced back to will, to motives, to responsible choices: the doctrine of the will has been invented essentially to justify punishment through the pretext of assigning guilt. All primitive psychology, the psychology of will, arises from the fact that its interpreters, the priests at the head of ancient communities, wanted to create for themselves the right to punish — or wanted to create this right for their God. Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty — could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness — nietzsche
edgy was said of emos who cut themselves with disposable razor blades but then some niggas started using it for trying to fuck with niggas by peer pressure shame or something — le quoting face
Cup the balls; tongue the shaft. -- Sir Winston Churchill
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Anonymous2014-05-14 6:58
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Bruce Lee
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend? — Abraham Lincoln
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint—Exupery
I liked these ones. Some others I had heard before and liked (security libery, abyss) but most of the rest sucked.
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Anonymous2014-05-14 13:46
DQN DQN LOL --DQN
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Anonymous2014-05-16 16:42
"There is always some limit which the individual accepts. He identifies this limit with himself. Horror seizes him at the thought that this limit may cease to be. But we are wrong to take this limit and the individual’s acceptance of it seriously. The limit is only there to be overreached. Fear and horror are not the real and final reaction; on the contrary, they are a temptation to overstep the bounds." - Georges `Do you have any eggs I could sit on?' Bataille
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Anonymous2014-05-16 23:39
Girls inexperienced in relationships are neurotic, passive, reliant on the approval of others. Their first sexual experiences are with "bad boy" types, self-hating rebels who know that spurning and criticizing females will get them into bed. Once exposed to the pleasure of sex, a girl slowly comes to realize that she is not loved, nor is she in love. She shipwrecks. But from this pain, she emerges as a woman. She discovers that sociopathy is not for men alone, that she, too, can use people for her pleasure and put them down when they have bored her. Independent, she leaves her useless first behind, forgets him, and thinks only of worshiping herself through acts of sex. At length, she rediscovers love. She finds someone she can care for, a man who is like a pet to her. They embrace.
`To be free is to rid oneself forever from the notion of reward; to expect
nothing from people or gods; to renounce not only this world and all worlds,
but salvation itself; to break up even the idea of this chain among chains.' ～ Ｅ．Ｍ． Ｃｉｏｒａｎ
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Anonymous2014-05-21 19:10
``The idea of liberation through the suppression of desire is the greatest foolishness ever conceived by the human mind. Why cut life short, why destroy it for so little profit as total indifference and the illusion of freedom? How dare you speak of life after you have stifled it in yourself? I have more respect for the man with thwarted desires, unhappy and desperate in love, than for the cold and proud philosopher. A world full of philosophers, what a terrifying prospect! They should be all wiped out so that life could go on naturally - blind and irrationally. I hate the wisdom of these men unmoved by truths, who do not suffer with their nerves, their flesh, and their blood. I like only vital, organic truths, the offspring of our anxiety. Those whose thoughts are alive are always right; there are no arguments against them. And even if there were, they would not last long. I wonder how there can still be men searching for the truth. Do wise men not yet understand that truth cannot be?'' ～ Ａｌｓｏ Ｅ．Ｍ． Ｃｉｏｒａｎ
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Anonymous2014-05-21 21:22
``Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make a fuss over it? Our self-removal from this planet would still be a magnificent move, a feat so luminous it would bedim the sun. What do we have to lose? No evil would attend our departure from this world, and the many evils we have known would go extinct along with us. So why put off what would be the most laudable masterstroke of our existence, and the only one?'' Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
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Anonymous2014-05-21 21:32
“Man is a self-conscious Nothing.” Taken at face value, this statement is a paradox and a horror. Being self-conscious and being nothing should rule out each other. Instead they are coupled to suggest an unreal monstrosity, an existential chimera on the order of the “undead.” The greater community of self-conscious mortals will tell you they are something, not nothing. The suicidal will tell you they are something but wish they were nothing. What almost no one will tell you is that they “know” they are nothing—living puppets helpless to act except as bidden by powers unseen—but, being self-conscious, suffer the illusion that they are something. They believe this is how it is with everyone— that all of us are living the same paradox, the same horror. They also believe we will do anything to keep this knowledge out of our heads because if we did not, how could we go on living? And why would we replenish the world with more self-conscious nothings, more puppets? Thomas Ligotti
You faggots are so predictable. stirner (retard), nietzsche (all style no substance), bataille (some substance but not much), cioran (emotional fuckwit with no substance), ligotti (ultra-retard with no idea about what he is talking about and shitty horror writer). Surprised there hasn’t been any schopenhauer (kitsch aphorisms and muh virginity) or camus (should of just became a soccer player) yet.
Fuckin edgy pseudo-intellectuals with your nihilist kitsch.
>>23 paraphrased: "I deserve respect and dignity. I have inherent worth, my thoughts and feelings count for something, and they must, absolutely must be considered carefully and taken seriously! I have value dammit! I am not worthless!! Why can't people see that? What is wrong with everything?"
Back to some more soothing Ligotti:
Nobody’s welfare, not even those who think and feel that being alive is objectionable and useless, is served by immolation in a calculus of the worst . . . if they can help it. But we do not control what we think or feel about being alive, or about anything else. If we did have this degree of mastery over our internal lives, then we would be spared an assortment of sufferings. Psychiatrists would be out of a job as depressives chose to stop being depressed and schizophrenics chose to silence unwanted voices in their heads. Those who believe they can choose their thoughts and feelings are nevertheless disabled from choosing what they choose to think and feel. Should they still believe themselves in control of what they choose to choose to think and feel, they still could not choose to choose to choose . . . and so on? 2 Were there any choice on our part about what we think and feel, it would not be adventurous to conjecture that we would think only as needed and choose to feel good as appropriate. Some might choose to live in a permanent state of intense euphoria. With godlike power over your thoughts and moods, why hold back? Such control would permit us, by fiat of self-addlement, to be careless of every hideous fact that our consciousness may impart about life and death. What is more, those who say that being alive is all right and those who aver the opposite would become united rather divided: we all do what we can to lock out what being alive implies, whichever side of the issue we may be on. And since we have no power of veto over our birth, we could choose to be ecstatic about it rather than negative. We would all be on the same side if we had absolute control over any lethal knowledge that might come into our heads. But the best we can do is this: stay as stupid as we can for as long as we can. And some people can stay just so stupid for just so long.
>>30 Back to some more baseless assertions*. I also don't see what you get out of this, but then again you're the equivalent a of female teenager menstruating (ligotti as well).
amateur programmers really are pseudo-intellectuals, and the average programmer isn't any better either. SICP is an introductory textbook and you have not yet studied it completely and complete all the exercises. I'm sure you all learned about these people using wikipedia, kids. Stick to what you know (programming and not much of it clearly) and try to actually get something done with it.
>>38 Actual nihilists kill people and then kill themselves, clearly you don't live up to your beliefs (though you presume them to be truths (and as truth is superior to lowly scientific fact which deals with trivial physical phenomena) and so this is nothing more than intellectually fakery and is typical of idiot /lit/ 4channers.
>>41 Completely wrong and pretty embarrassing, but at least you still haven't had to put forth any ``philosophers of substance''! Keep being ashamed of your actual views though, I'm sure you're correct to be.
>>44 You're quite the pseudo-intellectual genius, aren't you? And where's your wikipedia page? HAH! I like how you think of yourself as a philosopher and computer scientist when you're neither and have yet to even really understand SICP. You know what happens to those types? They kill themselves (Uriel the urinal, etc),
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Anonymous2014-05-22 0:21
>>45 I'm sorry you have to hide the way you think for fear of ridicule and feel the need to pretend to actually know something on programming bulletin boards.
>>47 I'm sorry for your projection, your insecurity is amusing. I'm sorry for the fact that you clearly do not know anything in the first place and spend your time copy/pasting stupid edgy quotes by ``philosophers'' (that are revered only by teenage netizens) to a site populated by no more than 10 people
I fear not the man who has sucked 10,000 cocks, but I do fear the man who has sucked one cock 10,000 times -- Friedrich Engels
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Anonymous2014-05-22 0:33
>>48 Just stop resisting and give me some thought with substance, something to validate your claims earlier. Oh wait, you can't, all you can do is hand out empty, pompous ``ridicule.''
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Anonymous2014-05-22 0:35
All this bullshit is happening because, programmers are not real scientists, only good for codemonkeying
>>51 The fact you intuitively don't recognize what is of substance and what isn't shows me how much of a stupid fucker you are.
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Anonymous2014-05-22 0:37
>>53 You don't know what I recognize as of substance or not, and ultimately right now this isn't about me. It's about your alarming inability to provide anything of substance.
>>54 The fact you say that I am pompous shows me to be superior as pompousness is an indication of superiority.
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Anonymous2014-05-22 0:43
>>48 Try not to take these quotes so personally. Relax a bit. Here is some more Ligotti to soothe your troubles:
We are the species that knows too much to content ourselves with merely surviving, reproducing, dying—and nothing else. We want there to be more to it than that, or to think there is. This is the tragedy: consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of uselessly striving to be something other than what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on crumbling bones.
I hope you enjoyed that >>48-kun, I will continue to provide more.
FOR YOUR HEALTH
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Anonymous2014-05-22 0:46
>>55 4chan offshoot bulletin board pompousness is a lot more likely to be an indication of extreme insecurity, though, as is not being able to provide a single example of your idea of ``substantive thought'' (besides ``real nihilists kill people XDD'') and having to hide behind posts that say nothing to save anonymous face.
>>60 Like everything you've posted (though I really don't pay attention to idiocy so I don't remember much) and all the quotes as well. LOL
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Anonymous2014-05-22 0:54
>>59 I have a degree in knowing when someone is a retard who knows nothing.
(It's when they can't provide a single example of ``substantive thought'' as they define it. Seriously, why can't you provide an example? (I know why.))
>>62 If you know why then why is it? I am amused by this thread and you idiot pseudo-intellectuals trying to be something you are not.
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Anonymous2014-05-22 0:58
>>63 Because you're scared it will diminish the ``anonymous superiority'' you're desperately (and pathetically) trying to obtain in this thread, ironically without saying anything of substance.
>>64 Why would I try to obtain something that I already have as it is a birth right?
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Anonymous2014-05-22 1:01
You have yet to demonstrate your encyclopedic knowledge, >>58-kun. What you have demonstrated is a tendency to become hysterical at the sight of thoughts you dislike. You are a child who cannot control himself, >>58-kun. Improve your character.
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Anonymous2014-05-22 1:02
>>65 Because you're stupid and you hide it through empty criticism without putting forth any positive contribution to avoid receiving criticism yourself. If you were truly superior you could post ``substantive thought'' confidently. You aren't, so you can't. You're a beta fag who knows nothing and is afraid to put what he thinks out there. It's really simple. You're inferior as fuck.
>>66 Your intuition of me possessing encyclopedic knowledge is correct though it is not organized. Hysteria is sign of my intuitive and moody, artist and profound, mind. I may be a child but at least I am not a teenage pseudo-intellectual. Calling people stupid Japanese titles on a stupid obscure website is a sign of you needing to improve your LIFE.
You being from 4chan is confirmed, stupid teenage cretin. Try to get near those ``alpha'' high school jocks and you'll be in for a nice ass raping as you are not what you think you are. I also find it ironic that you get emotional about me not putting forth anything ``positive'', look what you copy/paste, dumbass.
That's exactly what you've shown yourself to be. You act like you know more than others through the pseudo-intellectual act of empty negative name dropping e.g. ``bataille has some substance but not much'' and being unable to show any real intelligence or substantive knowledge at all.
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Anonymous2014-05-22 1:09
Indeed, >>67-hime. I was just about to ask him what quotes he likes. He will probably reply that quotes are for inferior people, in which case what is he doing in this thread? He is in this thread to sow discord. He has brought disharmony to our perfect thread o' quotes. He must be very pleased with himself.
>>72 Quotes are not systematized knowledge and therefore inferior. All of them are either baseless asseverations (aphorisms) or taken out of context. People who post about them on the internet are pseudo-intellectuals.
>>74 Not really, and plus there is being from 4chan and there is being a 4channer. Using any sort of memes shows one to be a 4channer (or redditor/or shitty internet ``culture'' type)
Quotes are not systematized knowledge and therefore inferior
What a dull position. I can see why you were so hesitant to provide examples of ``thought of substance'' earlier.
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Anonymous2014-05-22 1:21
>>75-kouhai, you are so arrogant and deluded you do not see how everything you have said applies to you. You are an agent of discord and disunity.
I want this to be a board of peace and acceptance, of sharing code and being supportive. You just want to be destructive. I submit that it is you who needs to improve his character and his habits.
>>79 I'm sure your woe is me cut my life into pieces ``philosophers'' are much duller or else you would of succeeded in slitting your wrists a long time ago HAH!
>>87 No, not really. Programs are simple little things and not ``universes''. At least come back when you program on your own self-created computer and operating system and so on.
The Bruce Lee quote is idiotic; conventional wisdom says "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". A man who knows only one kick will certainly find himself in trouble when he finds an opponent who can prevent, parry or dodge it, whereas a man who knows several kicks might find one against which the opponent cannot defend.
Maybe Lee said it so his potential opponents would take it seriously and become weaker that way.
When your hammer is C++, everything looks like a thumb.
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Anonymous2014-05-31 11:25
‘At The Summit Of Existence There Could Be Only Insignificance’- G. Bataille
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Anonymous2014-05-31 13:10
You will become famous if you please famous people - and all famous mathematicians like axiomatic set theory. -- Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher and mathematician, who worked in game theory, constructive logic, constructive type theory and constructive analysis.
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Anonymous2014-05-31 13:31
Mathematics is a fanaticism of mechanistic objectivity and objectification. Genuinely "subjective" agents are not acknowledged in hard science--not because they aren't palpable, but because there is an agreement, unstated or stated, not to mention them. -- Henry Flynt and Catherine C. Hennix
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Anonymous2014-05-31 14:29
>>113 One can practice a single kick 10k times and still know other moves.
he mind of man being finite, when it treats of things which partake of infinity, it is not to be wondered at if it run into absurdities and contradictions, out of which it is impossible it should ever extricate itself, it being of the nature of infinite not to be comprehended by that which is finite. -- George Berkeley
Any author who uses mathematics should always express in ordinary language the meaning of the assumptions he admits, as well as the significance of the results obtained. The more abstract his theory, the more imperative this obligation. In fact, mathematics are and can only be a tool to explore reality. In this exploration, mathematics do not constitute an end in itself, they are and can only be a means. -- Maurice Allais, La formation scientifique, Une communication du Prix Nobel d’économie
And if you'd like to see an unashamedly postmodern anime, you should get ahold of Revolutionary Girl Utena.
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Anonymous2014-06-02 0:33
We deliberate not about ends, but about means. For a doctor does not deliberate whether he shall heal, nor an orator whether he shall persuade, nor a statesman whether he shall produce law and order, nor does any one else deliberate about his end. They assume the end and consider how and by what means it is attained; and if it seems to be produced by several means they consider by which it is most easily and best produced, while if it is achieved by one only they consider how it will be achieved by this and by what means this will be achieved, till they come to the first cause, which in the order of discovery is last… and what is last in the order of analysis seems to be first in the order of becoming. And if we come on an impossibility, we give up the search, e.g., if we need money and this cannot be got; but if a thing appears possible we try to do it. — Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Book III.3,1112b)
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Anonymous2014-06-02 0:40
``Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming `HAX MY ANUS!'''
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Anonymous2014-06-10 18:46
"Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work."
"Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love"
"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone’s slave."
>>127 weird loner virgin young male teens continue to prove themselves to not be as individualistic as they think and believing only what sounds edgy and ``negative''.