Interpret and Comment on Philosophical Quotes

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
I don't really believe in "Good things come to those who wait." or "Patience is a virtue."

Neither do I. I bleieve that "Haste makes waste".

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
I think that's quite a trivial statement dressed-up in nice words.

That's because I was commenting on the same trivial statement. And I use nice words.

You were commenting on your own trivial statement as you made it? That's, like, "WOW!".

Yeah, so I guess I don't really belong here.

"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."

- Plato

You worship me.

I'd say he just made that up to be quoted.

You only bloody went and fell for it didn't ya.

Damn! I didn't think Plato really said it anyway. I think Jesus said it as a way of controlling lots of people in a time before wars on terror.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Yeah, so I guess I don't really belong here.

"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."

- Plato

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Originally posted by Storm
Disagreement with others seems rather self-evident. But what about disagreement with oneself? Does it make any sense?

Yes.

Insecurity of one's beleifs is a common drive for people to aim to prove they are right, because they need the validation from someone else.

The desire to always be right promotes ignorance, and ignorance in itself is destructive.

"The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder."

- David Hume.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
~B. F. Skinner

Originally posted by Regret
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
~B. F. Skinner

He probably meant that the society forms and conditions an individual before it has the mental capacities to evaluate all the ideologies it is fed. Which in y opinion is true, but probably hard to stop, if that is to be wished anyways. I like the quote.

Originally posted by Janus Marius
"The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder."

- David Hume.

Well, he speaks truth. Can be seen in history and our times. Also fits good with the following quote. Which is in fact preceding in this post due to my weird way of reading Threads from front to back.

"All movements go too far. "

- Bertrand Russell

Originally posted by Regret
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
~B. F. Skinner

Originally posted by Bardock42
He probably meant that the society forms and conditions an individual before it has the mental capacities to evaluate all the ideologies it is fed. Which in y opinion is true, but probably hard to stop, if that is to be wished anyways. I like the quote.

Yes, pretty much. Skinner was a Behaviorist though. Behavior analysts have a different view of mentalism. We do not entirely believe in it as the concept is commonly viewed.

One of my favorites
"I am like God, and God like me. I am as large as God, He is as small as I. He cannot above me, nor I beneath Him be. Selatius, 17th Century."

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