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| Subject: Re: Random Questions Box Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:30 pm | |
| How about I cease to waste my time humoring your utter lack of very basic classical philosophy education? |
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Satyr Daemon
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| Subject: Re: Random Questions Box Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:32 pm | |
| - Yockey, Francis Parker wrote:
- The abolition of quality smothers the exceptional man in his youth and turns him into a cynic.
- Socrates wrote:
- Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
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Satyr Daemon
Gender : Posts : 36827 Join date : 2009-08-24 Age : 58 Location : Hyperborea
| Subject: Re: Random Questions Box Wed Oct 08, 2014 7:23 pm | |
| - Socrates wrote:
- Such was the natural nobility of this city, so sound and healthy was the spirit of freedom among us, and the instinctive dislike of the barbarian, because we are pure Hellenes, having no admixture of barbarism in us.
For we are not like many others, descendants of Pelops or Cadmus or Egyptus or Danaus, who are by nature barbarians, and yet pass for Hellenes, and dwell in the midst of us; but we are pure Hellenes, uncontaminated by any foreign element, and therefore the hatred of the foreigner has passed unadulterated into the life-blood of the city. - Socrates wrote:
- Most excellent man, are you not ashamed to care for acquisition of wealth and for reputation and honor, when you neither care nor take any thought for wisdom and truth and the perfection of your soul?
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Satyr Daemon
Gender : Posts : 36827 Join date : 2009-08-24 Age : 58 Location : Hyperborea
| Subject: Re: Random Questions Box Wed Oct 08, 2014 7:28 pm | |
| - Schopenhauer, Aurthur wrote:
- Stupid people are generally malicious for the very same reason as the ugly and the deformed. Similarly, genius and sanctity are akin.
However simpleminded a saint may be, he will nevertheless have a dash of genius in him; and however many errors of temperament, or of actual character, a genius may possess, he will still exhibit a certain nobility of disposition, by which he shows his kinship with the saint. - Orwell, George wrote:
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- Orwell, George wrote:
- The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Ephemeron
Gender : Posts : 37 Join date : 2012-09-22 Location : down here
| Subject: Re: Random Questions Box Thu Oct 09, 2014 9:04 pm | |
| In a locked thread in which no one may participate, Satyr said:
"Because the mind can only assimilate what is inferior to it, beneath it, lower than it... just as a predator can only feed upon what is weaker than it."
This view is not only false it is absurd, although you are right to relate the mind with the predator. A predator is a unique aspect of life. It may feed upon both its equal and its superior as well as those below it and in the same way the mind, also a predator can assimilate from above as it can below and this occurs beyond any ability. That is the mind comprehends, whether or not one knows how to receive the information is another matter. The predator kills and feeds when it is necessary it is not limited by other than what presents itself as food. Circumstance and blind chance feed the wolf on one occasion it is hare on another, bear.
A Question.
Is Schopenhauer the superior human or Arminius? Beethoven or Charlemagne? Michelangelo or Caesar?
Whom is the more evolved, more perfect human?
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