Quote Of The Day

Amos_Umwhat

In case you didn't get that ^, perhaps this will clear things up:

"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself.  A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis.  A synthesis is a relation between two.  Considered in this way, a human being is still not a self."

Soren Kierkegaard

There.  All better?

jlmarta

Amos_Umwhat said:

In case you didn't get that ^, perhaps this will clear things up:

"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself.  A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis.  A synthesis is a relation between two.  Considered in this way, a human being is still not a self."

Soren Kierkegaard

There.  All better?

Uh, sure. I think. Or maybe.... nah. 

Gee, I’m sure glad we had this talk... 😜

webmost

Amos_Umwhat said:

In case you didn't get that ^, perhaps this will clear things up:

"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself.  A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis.  A synthesis is a relation between two.  Considered in this way, a human being is still not a self."

Soren Kierkegaard

There.  All better?

Way back in the dark ages when I was in college, we were assigned Kierkegaard. What a joke.

jlmarta

webmost said:

Amos_Umwhat said:

In case you didn't get that ^, perhaps this will clear things up:

"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself.  A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis.  A synthesis is a relation between two.  Considered in this way, a human being is still not a self."

Soren Kierkegaard

There.  All better?

Way back in the dark ages when I was in college, we were assigned Kierkegaard. What a joke.

I think they must’ve smoked that wacky-terbacky way back in Kierkegaard’s day, too. How else could someone make things so clear.....??  😎

Amos_Umwhat

"Those grapes were probably sour anyway..."

Aesop's fox

peter4jc

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

~Will Rogers

silvermouse

 “Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny” Frank Zappa

Guitarded

“He is much nicer in person, than he is on the forum.”  Jiunn Liu 

Bob_Luken

Guitarded said:

“He is much nicer in person, than he is on the forum.”  Jiunn Liu 

Jiunn said this? About who? I can think of several.  

Yakster

Who's Jiunn?

jlmarta

Yakster said:

Who's Jiunn?

You know, the guy with the out-of-focus camera.....  😜

Edit: The guy who poops after every cigar. 
          (Just kidding, Jiunn. We still love ya 😬)

silvermouse

“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

Vincent Van Gogh

peter4jc

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." ~Will Rogers

Guitarded

“ The most used 7 syllable word in a poker room....unfrikinbelievable!”
Jimmy Rosenberg 

silvermouse

deadman

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allen Poe 

silvermouse

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

peter4jc

I'd like to buy him for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he'd bring.

silvermouse

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

peter4jc

"I never lose. Either I win or I learn." ~Unknown

silvermouse

I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is.

Donald Trump

silvermouse

"Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense, my friend, don't plant anything but Love."
~ Rumi ~

Yakster

"A cigar ought not to be smoked solely with the mouth, but with the hand, the eyes, and with the spirit."
~ Zino Davidoff ~

peter4jc

‘Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself’ - unknown

Trykflyr_1

You can't get something clean without getting something else dirty. 

silvermouse

"Oh! What A Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice To Deceive"

from the long poem, Marmion,  by Sir Walter Scott (and not from Shakespeare)

A sudden light on Marmion broke:–

"Ah! dastard fool, to reason lost!"

He muttered; "'T was nor fay nor ghost

I met upon the moonlight wold,

But living man of earthly mould.

O dotage blind and gross!

Had I but fought as wont, one thrust

Had laid De Wilton in the dust,

My path no more to cross.–

How stand we now?–he told his tale

To Douglas, and with some avail;

'T was therefore gloomed his rugged brow.–

Will Surrey dare to entertain

'Gainst Marmion, charge disproved and vain?

Small risk of that, I trow.

Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun,

Must separate Constance from the nun–

Oh! what a tangled web we weave

When first we practise to deceive!

A Palmer too!–no wonder why

I felt rebuked beneath his eye;

I might have known there was but one

Whose look could quell Lord Marmion."

silvermouse

“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”

~ Gerry Spence ~

peter4jc

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

silvermouse

Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time”, is like saying, “I don’t want to”. Lao Tzu

silvermouse

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest." 
Winston Churchill, 1939