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[Demosthenes]

I'm making this thread for a few reasons. One is for a database of philosophy. Either they are a page long story of thought or inspiration, or powerful one-liners, this would be the place for it. Another reason is for the result that these few sayings, stories, and even ballads give us, inspiration or for some clarity of thought and even a broader direction of life.

Let's brings out our inner Socrates or Diogenes or Confucius or Sun Tzu and give us some stories or quotes of philosophy either from your personal life or maybe a quote you googled. I would just like to warn everyone who posts in this thread about The Way Things Work, so let's keep this civil and not controversial. Nothing directly about Religion, Politics, Racism, ect yet it would be nice if they were to make us think. And now I'll start...

"Failure is the condiment that gives success it's flavor". -Truman Capote

[Zyll]

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - "God", Futurama

[okuRaku]

"Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien

[Deft]

"I have a feeling I'm going to love this philosophy thread." - Deft

[Demosthenes]

Very compelling, Deft

"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king" - John Milton

Don't blur the lines into the philosophy of religion please.

Edited by Demosthenes, 26 May 2012 - 02:07 PM.

[Orz]

Keep it to philosophy please, not the philosophy of religion or anything that begs to be taken as religious. Blurring the lines to religion is going to just be removed.

[Zyll]

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery; but today is a gift! That is why it is called the present!" - Master Oogway

[Demosthenes]

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'