Who's your favorite philosopher?

Mine would be Lao Tzu. He was a man of peace and love. He also wrote the book "Tao Te Ching" which is a fantastic book on the way of peace and harmony.

Chunky, please give us one of your favorite quotes. Tell us why you like it. Thanks.

"there i have caught you, nihilist! the sedentary life is the very sin against the holy spirit. only thoughts reached by walking have value"

Meister Eckhart for me (not Eckhart Tolle - although he is great too!)

"God gives birth to the Son as you, as me, as each one of us. As many beings - as many gods in God. In my soul, God not only gives birth to me as his son, he gives birth to me as himself, and himself as me. I find in this divine birth that God and I are the same: I am what I was and what I shall always remain now and forever. I am transported above the highest angels; I neither decrease or increase, for in this birth I have become the motionless cause of all that moves. I have won back what has always been mine. Here in my own soul, the greatest of miracles has taken place - God has returned to God!"

That one got him excommunicated in 1323 but his rehabilitation now seems complete. In 1992 the Vatican described him as "a good and orthodox theologian"!!

I also love Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy. Like Alan Watts, he doesn't claim to bring anything new to the table but demonstrates with wide references how many people through time, and from all over the world have reached the same conclusion. I strongly recommend it!

OB1: attribution?

when i saw this thread i was all excited until i read EVERYONE said nietzsche
not really everyone everyone but from my perspective id rather keep my mouth shut than say what eveyone else was saying but then i saw a way to say nietzsche and still be original so my favorite philosopher is mr syphyllufflekiss aka

"nietzsche is dead"
GOD

but beyond good and evil ecce homo human all to human spake zarathustra were all more fun than most of the bible imo

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you know after i wrote the above
i got to thinking
i really enjoyed ecclasiasties - it was very eastern philosophy i thought (and why does thr bible say sooo little about mammon when its obviously so integral of a concept? not that i expect an answer im just blabbery right now) and the gospelsof course - why doesnt anyone one preaching on tv ever talk about jesus said you are gods and the children of gods to whom the scripture was given ?
and sirach was really really insightful and of course daniel and joseph and how david seemed to have spent more time hiding fro kings than being one and i have this sort of bias thatchristians almost seem to prefer paul to jesus and none of this is relevant to this thread but no ones said anything else ina while and oh yeah i dont want to forget ruth she was really a badash (she was the one that chopped off the kings head right? or wasthat esther?) but samson wss a moron but im kind of that dumb about womentoo so i cant blame him BUT COME ON DUDE SHES OBVIOUSLY NOT THE ONE TRY CRAIGSLIST OR SOMETHING i dont know i guess e bible was pretty fun too now that i get to thinking about it

"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.