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Position:Home>Philosophy> What is your favorite philosophical quote?Question: What is your favorite philosophical quote!? The one that I just recently read that "sparked" with me is:
* * * Alice came to a fork in the road!. "Which road do I take!?" she asked!. "Where do you want to go!?" responded the Cheshire cat!. "I don't know," Alice answered!. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter!." ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland If you read into it, it's actually a very deep!. So what are some quotes that get to you!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The farther one travels, the less one knows!. -George HarrisonWww@QuestionHome@Com ""Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose'' Written by Gby Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, which appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays!. In that poem, the first "Rose" is the name of a woman!. Stein later used variations on the phrase in other writings, and "A rose is a rose is a rose" is probably her most famous quote, often interpreted as "things are what they are!." I could have copied more, but the quote still copies phrases like '''a man is a man is a man is a man''!.!.!.!.hence it is still famous !.!.in this century!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com A wise elder explained to a youngster - "You have two wolves that live inside you and they are in constant battle!. One is angry and full of hate and wants only to destroy the things around it!. The other is compassionate and full of love and wants to do good!. "Which one will win the battle!?" the youngster asked!. Answered the elder, "The one you feed the most!."Www@QuestionHome@Com Since you're fond of Lewis Carroll: "Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the goldern gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream!? Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show We flutter idly to and fro!. Man's little Day in haste we spend, And, from its merry noontide, send No glance to meet the silent end!." That is from Sylvie and Bruno!.Www@QuestionHome@Com know thyself!. btw, socrates did not say it!. it was inscribed above the entrance to the abode of the oracle at delphi, where socrates frequented!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "Sato say: Good wife do seventy chores around the house, cooking and sixty-nine!." "Our fathers were models for God, if our fathers bailed, then what does that tell you about GOD!?" -Fight ClubWww@QuestionHome@Com Act according to that maxim by which, at the same time, you would will it be a universal law!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams --Eleanor Roosevelt"Www@QuestionHome@Com The common mortal is the parent of the BuddhaWww@QuestionHome@Com "A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one!." Heraclitus!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "Those who matter, don't mind!. Those who mind don't matter" -Dr!. SuessWww@QuestionHome@Com S**t Happens!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "my grandmother was too sceptical to be an atheist" Jean-Paul Sartre!.Www@QuestionHome@Com life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get -forest gump!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "And remember, no matter where you go, there you are!. " ConfuciusWww@QuestionHome@Com You're captain of your own ship!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "Man who sits in the judge's lap!.!.gets honorable discharge!."Www@QuestionHome@Com |