Your favourite philosophical quotes?

Originally posted by Bardock42
Just...that you are not.

Since it was first published in French. In the Discourse....so...really, you are just wrong. But doesn't matter, can happen to anyone...like it just happened to you.

Originally posted by Storm
The original statement was in French: "Je pense, donc je suis."

Originally posted by Strangelove
No, it was first published in Latin, French wasn't until 6 years later

You are wrong. First it was published in French.

End of story, I would say.

Originally posted by Bardock42
You are wrong. First it was published in French.

End of story, I would say.

Damn.

You're right, I didn't read it close enough.

Ah well. Shit happens

Originally posted by Strangelove
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_On_the_Method

Damn.

You're right, I didn't read it close enough.

Ah well. Shit happens

At least you admit it, you are a good guy.

Originally posted by Bardock42
At least you admit it, you are a good guy.

Necessity is the mother of invention

I have a few favorties of my own. The first one is "Aspire to inspire before you expire" and also "There is beauty in everything, not everybody sees it." the last quote was from cruscious or how ever you spell his name.

comment on my quotes and also add your own

"Faithless is he who says goodbye when the road darkens."
- Tolkien

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

"A friend with weed is better."

' Man alone creates beauty for Man alone has the pain to need it'- Nietzche

"Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is doing it. Right is right, even if nobody is doing it."
- Saint Augustine

"He who hears the wises of the past and shouts them is a pupil who will never be teacher. He who hears the wises of the past and shouts the wises of the future is a pupil who will become teacher to many."
-Anon

"There is no wisdom in plagiarism."
-Anon

Hey doublebubble! I'll give you a ride! - Cheech Marin runlfrun

"Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions" Mikhail Gorbachev

''That something is difficult, must be so more a reason for doing it''

Maria, Letters to a young poet, 1904

Pride exists only in the company of others- Plato

If you tell the truth you never have to remember anything- Twain

"The saddest words of tongue or pen, are these four words, what might have been."
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

Similarly (though I don't know who first said it)...
"Better to try and fail than fail to try."

"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?" -- Stanislaw J. Lec

Cogito ergo sum.

"Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you? You are at your very best when things are worst."

-- Starman, revealing his overall opinion about human beings.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
...If you tell the truth you never have to remember anything- Twain

"BELLADONNA, n.
In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues." ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens." ~ W.Yeats