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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,596 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,596 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Clearly the appeal from an American statesman is much greater than that from Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus. I thought it was a funny juxtaposition.

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  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 16,504 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I just got caught up on a few months worth of these profound thoughts and I’m sick of you all.

    And I thought it was worth sharing. So, I posted it in the great quotes thread. Annoying, isn’t it?

    Hopefully, it isn't something we can't work through. Please reach out if you need anything, Mike-Bob.

    How's that for annoying? :-)

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  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 20

    Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
    Bertrand Russell

    Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
    Voltaire

  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,835 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That would be, wait for it, all philosophers.

    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

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  • Hobbes86Hobbes86 Posts: 3,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
    Bertrand Russell

    Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
    Voltaire

    What is the context? It sounds like he is saying we should not be certain of anything. Yet, society would not function without certainty.

    "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

  • TRayBTRayB Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hobbes86 said:

    @silvermouse said:
    Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
    Bertrand Russell

    Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
    Voltaire

    What is the context? It sounds like he is saying we should not be certain of anything. Yet, society would not function without certainty.

    Are you sure about that?

  • Hobbes86Hobbes86 Posts: 3,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TRayB said:
    Are you sure about that?

    I certainly am.

    "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

  • First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "I have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion" George Orwell 1938

  • First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I quoted Randy Wayne White quoting Orwell. Whoever, but the quote rings true.

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
    --Nietzsche

  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,596 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:
    There is no end to the CAS madness, but there will be an end to your 'madness' once you smoke all of these.

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  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

    Desiderius Erasmus

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