Who's your favorite philosopher?

"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
~ Martin Heidegger


"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."
~ Martin Heidegger

Et juste pour me pencher un peu vers la légèreté :


« Les psychiatres, c’est très efficace. Moi, avant, je pissais au lit, j’avais honte. Je suis allé voir un psychiatre, je suis guéri. Maintenant, je pisse au lit, mais j’en suis fier. »

~ Coluche

Alexandre Orion wrote: Et juste pour me pencher un peu vers la légèreté :


« Les psychiatres, c’est très efficace. Moi, avant, je pissais au lit, j’avais honte. Je suis allé voir un psychiatre, je suis guéri. Maintenant, je pisse au lit, mais j’en suis fier. »

~ Coluche

it was worth every penny!

"Il y a un temps pour toutes chose" "vanité de vanité, tout est vanité"

Du livre d'ecclesiaste du roi Salomon.

Salomon restera toujours mon meilleur phylosophe même s'il a tombé très bas a cause de l'amour d'une femme.
Après tout ça reste un humain comme tout le monde.

but what if one may catch the wind?
is it not also a vanity to be too good to try?

what if the wind has called one by name?

is vanity to think the wind would do such a thing
or vanity to think the wind is only the wind?

Deng Ming-Dao

He's written a lot of books, such as Everyday Tao, Scholar Warrior, and Chronicles of Tao.

“You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.”

~ Martha C. Nussbaum

Streen wrote: Deng Ming-Dao

He's written a lot of books, such as Everyday Tao, Scholar Warrior, and Chronicles of Tao.

i havent seen it in years and years but somewhere in scholar warrior when hes talking about training he basically says training is don with the same intensity as real fighting
notw this is obvious to someone who already fully understands it hut atthe time i had too great of an emphasis on the

front snap kick 1
front snap kick 2
front snap kick 3

method of training technique and not enough emphasis on the "fight your way out of a group of four people using only 1,2 punches and front snap kicks and do it with real fight intensity" method of training

that one single sentence opened me up to a whole next level of ability.
thanks for mentioning him because i had forgotten completely

Jason Silva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfkRZWFHpss

Joe Rogan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKYbnjKSLvI

Terence McKenna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-vMMpja30

OB1Shinobi wrote: thanks for mentioning him because i had forgotten completely

No problem, man He does have a way of saying things simply and clearly that not a lot of word are necessary.

I've been reading William James lately, but for me it has to be a coin toss between Plato and Robert C. Solomon. Solomon writes about emotions in great detail, and that is my field of interest, but Plato is special to me in that I find his writing style to be the most pleasing out of all of those I have read.

On the flip side, I don't care too much for Spinoza or Charles Peirce, not because of the content of their arguments, but because of the style of their writing.

how did i miss this thread?

my favorite philosopher.... easy myself

Alan Watts is probably my favorite, though I really enjoy Slavoj Zizek.

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T.A. Barron

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
-Marcus Aurelius

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
-Bruce Lee

I enjoyed Simone de Beauvoir's work quite a bit, and Machiavelli's The Prince is also very enlightening. (I mainly love it because it was written about Cesare Borgia, but I'm not sure if Machiavelli is technically a philosopher...it's more of an ethics thing, but whatever. )

Of course I also love the usual suspects: Socrates, Nietzsche, Sartre. My favorite "comedian philosophers" are Russell Brand and George Carlin.

Platon

After some more thought, I'd have to change my answer to Matthew Stover.