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- hamandcheese, on 10/12/2007, -19/+118I read therefor I digg.
- MattS, on 10/12/2007, -2/+70Number 12: Socrates - "I drank what?!"
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -10/+74There is only one quote I know of that has been able to properly summarize the ludicrous struggle of religions since the dawn of time:
"I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?" He said, "Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?" He said,"Reformed Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off." -- Emo Philips - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+77"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love it. - unicornhunter, on 10/12/2007, -13/+65"If there's grass on the field, play ball."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32reminds me of this one from a movie
Re-education Camp Director: What's better than a big juicy steak?
Camp Detainees: Nothing is better than a big juicy steak!
Re-education Camp Director: And what's better than nothing?
Camp Detainees: A stale piece of bread is better than nothing!
Re-education Camp Director: Therefore a stale piece of bread is better than a big juicy steak. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -27/+55seriously, those are lame. stop being politically correct and stop wasting everyone's time.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+34I don't know what's funnier, you trying to insult philosophy students, or the fact that you think you're being healthy by drinking diet coke.
- Renton, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32Can God microwave a burrito so hot, not even he can eat it?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+35You forgot the best one:
"Why?" - lombard, on 10/12/2007, -10/+36From my logic professor:
All animals are mortal
Cats are animals
Therefore Socrates is a cat - monergism, on 10/12/2007, -19/+45Know what I say to those who study philosophy?
Can I get a refill of Diet Coke? Thanks. - rebotfc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28"Reality is a commodity." - S Colbert.
- decruncher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25#12 - "First principles, Clarice. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from witches?
Peasant 1: More witches.
Peasant 2: Wood.
Sir Bedevere: Good. Now, why do witches burn?
Peasant 3: ...because they're made of... wood?
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of her.
Sir Bedevere: But can you not also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Bedevere: Does wood sink in water?
Peasant 1: No, no, it floats!... It floats! Throw her into the pond!
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Apples.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck.
Sir Bedevere: ...Exactly. So, logically...
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore...
Peasant 2: ...A witch! - Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -12/+34If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
-Joesph Goebbles
Also: God is Dead. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Affirm the consequent much?
- washingtonydc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24I think you have this link confused with the top 11 emo quotations.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -33/+51One from a non-white, non-western philosopher (which I think is fair):
"When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry."
-- Muhammed Iqbal
And one from a non-male philosopher (which I think is equally fair):
"Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their oppressors."
-- Evelyn Cunningham (Not trained in philosophy, but no biggie) - LittleDanzig, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." -- Buddha
- itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -11/+29Wow. A list titled "11 Most Important Philosophical Questions" that does not contain a single quote from a non-western philosopher? This reminds me of my intro to philosophy course, I'm not sure my professor even knows that the east has some amazing philosophers.
- ewc80, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Cenobite's post does make the valid point that the article doesn't have quotes from a very diverse background. My understanding of philosophy is to open your mind as much as possible. Providing some quotes from people of different backgrounds would seem not just "more fair" but a good idea from a philosophical stand point.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22I believe it was Confucius that said, "go to sleep with an itchy butt, wake up with a smelly finger".
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16* The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared to that of which we are ignorant.
* No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
Plato
* Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre - jd5alive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1611 Most Important Philosophical Quotations.
Who is your soul mate?
Ads by Google - heff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16she just doesn't like _you_, that's all.
- vspazv, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15A: What the difference between us and them?
B: Oh, they kneel on the right knee. We kneel on the left.
A: Damn heretics. Let's cut off their heretical legs? - SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15OMFG it's:
How much wood WOULD a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck WOULD chuck wood. It's not a tongue-twister if you use "could." - LabThug, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15"You forgot the best one:
'Why?'"
That's because the answer is so much better:
"Why not?" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Best. Quote. Ever.
- PABeachBum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"I'm a 15 year old digg user, so I must know everything."
- Most 15 year old digg users - itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13"Rome encapsulated the Middle East."
Cleanlyness: thanks for proving my point. I don't know how it is in Europe, but Eastern philosophy is simply ... nonexistent in normal philosophy courses in the USA. It's only taught in specialized courses in universities and is basically unheard of in K-12 education. And when somebody doesn't even know what "east" means... damn. :-( - PhilipMarlowe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The last quote is from Marx, actually-- "Philosophy is to reality as masturbation is to sex." And he was referring to all previous philosophers, whom he felt, weren't "scientific" as he was.
- metacoola, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Finally, a digg article without a theological or political spin. These are some really nice quotes.
- orian76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities
- Voltaire - venir, on 10/12/2007, -17/+25"If there's no grass on the field, turn 'em over and play in the mud."
- SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I prefer:
"A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire, that old snarky bastard. - Utopian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Why does a girl always want who she can't have?"
The harder you have to work for something, the higher you perceive its value. - monarch00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Majored in MIS, minored in philosophy.
Virtually every employer I interviewed was interested in my minor. If nothing else, it shows people that you're balanced, and critical of the world around you.
“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.” - Samuel Butler
Get over yourself. - HunterTV, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11"He saw the citizens of his beloved Athens sleepwalking through life, living only for money, power, and fame, so he became famous trying to help them."
Hummmm. Sounds oddly familar to a current situation... somewhere close. What could it be? Dang, it's on the tip of my tongue... Ah, ***** it. - ShBm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know." - Robert Ingersol
- sorbix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Anyone who has studied philosophy will tell you that these quotes don't at all reflect the major breakthroughs in debates throughout philosophical history.
Neat quotes are OK, but a real philosopher would have a solid defense of any assertion. And not having a quotable quote should not keep you off any list of important philosophical contributions. - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This has been discussed by many philosophers for ages.
Here are just some links for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant#Kant.27s_Theory_of_Perception
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations_on_First_Philosophy - vspazv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Everything is my imagination. When I close my eyes you all cease to exist in a physical state.
*blink*
*blink*
hehe - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7some from my favorite modern philosopher, Alan Watts: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/alan_watts/ (though I occasionally disagree with his assertions)
- timzen81, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6My point is more of a meta-point. This article arbitrarily picks 11 quotes and dubs them as the most important without any argument about either their contextual importance or their effect on the thoughts of the day. I agree completely about welcoming debate about a philosophers arguments - i've suffered through my share of critiques, but that is not the point of the article.
- Aggaman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Someone won the Nobel prize in economics by explaining why people take subjects like philosophy at university.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Spence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_(economics)
It's the job market signalling stuff. Even if education did not make any contribution towards job productivity (e.g. a degree in philosophy, which is more difficult, yet less productive than most other subjects) people would still take it in order to show prospective employers that they were better candidates for employment.
Spence himself took philosophy as an undergrad IIRC.
And philosophy majors tend to be right at the top in standardized tests like the GRE (from a study of results through the 80s and 90s).
[re: the GRE] "The general result of all the data was that philosophy majors performed substantially better (5% points or more) than the average. Not one other group of majors showed this consistent pattern -- not even economics or the physical sciences, whose majors did exceptionally well in three of the four areas but only marginally better than average on the verbal portion of the GRE. Biology majors performed better than average on all tests, but the margins were consistently smaller than those of philosophy majors."
"On the LSAT and GMAT (which few students would think to prepare for by studying metaphysics and ethics) philosophy majors performed substantially better than majors in any other humanities field, better than all the social science majors except economics, better than all natural science majors except mathematics, and better than all business and applied fields, including engineering."
http://falcon.tamucc.edu/~philosophy/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=PhilosophyProgram.EssayPelham
There are very few hard science majors that can compete on raw intellectual ability with the philosophers (they spank CS majors, for example). Just goes to show you shouldn't believe stereotypes. - RobertPatrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They forgot Serge Gainsbourg : "Man created God. The contrary is still to be proven..."
- vaduzl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"No matter where you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong." -Richard Feynman
"People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail." -Richard Feynman
"Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists." -Richard Feynman
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself." -Henry Louis Mencken
"Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing." - Ambrose Bierce
"...philosophy is to science as pornography is to sex." - Steve Jones -
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