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“Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.” — Albert Camus (1913–1960) Continue reading
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“Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.” — Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Continue reading
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“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have; they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.” -Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Either/Or Continue reading
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“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” -Simone de Beauvoir Continue reading
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when out for a walk, I may not know where I am going, but will know where I am when I get there. Continue reading
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“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.” –Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Continue reading
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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” –Marie Curie (1867-1934) Continue reading
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don’t worry about tomorrow when today is not even over with Continue reading
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“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” ~ Iris Murdoch Continue reading
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My philosophy: Sundays are always good for kicking back and relaxing. What ever needs to be done, can be done tomorrow or whenever. Continue reading
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my philosophy: live enjoy and relax one day at a time it works for me Continue reading
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life is grand if you have a grand or two (money) Continue reading
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“No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.” — Leo Strauss (1899-1973), “The City and Man” Continue reading
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“Liberalism – it is well to recall this today–it is the supreme form of generosity, it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share the existence with the enemy more than that, with an Continue reading
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“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.” – Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Continue reading
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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” -Carl Rogers (1902-1987) Continue reading
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“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.” -Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), “Man’s Search for Meaning” Continue reading
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war is war. there’s no other way at looking at it. Continue reading
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as the past seven years have passed by, the one thing I learned since, is that to listen to your body, pay attention to it, and correct what is ever going on with it. so far, its worked for me. Continue reading
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what a bucket of paint will do to lift one’s spirits Continue reading
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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” -James Branch Cabell Continue reading
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“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” – Marting Heidegger Continue reading
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“What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question, one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there was little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark here was one.” -Virginia Woolf, “To Continue reading
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“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” – Sun Tzu Continue reading
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‘Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred of something.” – Anton Chekhov Continue reading
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“The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries-in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts.” – Rene Descartes Continue reading
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“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” Friedrich Nietzche Continue reading
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“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil.” – Marcus Aurelius Continue reading
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“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” – Virginia Woolf Continue reading
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In a world increasingly defined by complexity and noise, how can we cultivate an appreciation for :”bare things” and simple moments without losing sight of the broader dynamics that shape our lives? – Virginia Woolf Continue reading
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“How much better is silence, the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, things in themselves, myself being myself.” – Virginia Woolf Continue reading
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“It’s a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try to be a little kinder.” – Aldous Huxley Continue reading
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“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” – Buddha Continue reading
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“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” – Leo Tolstoy Continue reading
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“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” – Bertrand Russell Continue reading
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“Man is a rational – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, nut so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it.” – Bertrand Russell Continue reading
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“I must learn to love the fool in me, the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I Continue reading
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“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure.” – Viktor Frankl Continue reading
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“I may not have been sure about what did really interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.” – Albert Camus Continue reading
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“The only public good is that which assures the private good of the citizens.” – Simone de Beauvoir Continue reading
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“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” – Euripides Continue reading
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“With freedom of the press, nations are not sure of going toward justice and peace. But without it, they are sure of not going there.” – Albert Camus Continue reading
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“I postpone death by living, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” – Anais Nin Continue reading
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“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” – Thomas Carlyle Continue reading
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“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be trusted.” – George MacDonald Continue reading
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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” -Carl Rogers Continue reading
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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.” -Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mystery of Marie Roget” Continue reading
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“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” -Ludwig van Beethoven Continue reading
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“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” –Joan Didion Continue reading
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“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me Continue reading
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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard Continue reading
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -Leo Tolstoy Continue reading
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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of loss of power.” -John Steinbeck Continue reading
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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening. I cannot even explain it to myself.” – Franz Kafka Continue reading
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“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way. But if we Continue reading
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my philosophy live one day at a time put one foot in front of the other think before you talk listen with an open mind though with some people it is hard to do Continue reading
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today is a good day to kick back and relax in a perfect world everyday would be a good day to do that Continue reading
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the coffee is good the book is good the atmosphere is good the surroundings are good then it is all good Continue reading
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a day older & a bit more wiser* *its not my birthday Continue reading
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a day ago while out on my evening stroll a thought popped into my head: born yesterday living today dead tomorrow it seems this is how fast our lives are on earth for a fleeting moment then poof the gig is over and done with Continue reading
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A Pondering Thought
coffee what would I do without it I would most likely be a basket case and bouncing off the fucking walls thats why I keep a steady supply of different brands I do like to change it up so I don’t get tired of drinking the same old same old Continue reading
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City Life
street corner philosopher conversing about life in general Continue reading
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Wednesday Evening Quote
“Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. Continue reading
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Friday’s Quote
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” ~ Martin Heidegger Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“I’ve gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of Stoicism is that you can’t pick or choose in the world what you want to happen and what you don’t want to happen, and that actually if you did get to choose, the Continue reading
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Rules For Happiness
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ~ Immanuel Kant Continue reading
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Growing
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, Continue reading
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Practice Kindness
“The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. That’s the story. That’s the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with Continue reading
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Repeat
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January
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. ~Jean-Paul Sartre Continue reading
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Change
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ~ Alan Watts Continue reading
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Alertness
drink water to stay hydrated … drink coffee to stay awake … and alert Continue reading
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good book good coffee a comfortable place to do it Continue reading
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Opinions
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” ~ John Locke Continue reading
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The World We See
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” ~ William James Continue reading
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Expression Of An Opinion
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if Continue reading
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The wording on the mug says it all
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Children
“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.” ~ John Locke, Philosopher, 1632 – 1704 Continue reading
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Yup I Do
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3 For 3
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My Philosophy
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I Second The Motion
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Early Sunsets
With daylight savings time done for the next four months… it won’t stop me from taking my early evening walks…I’ll admit that I enjoy it….even when there is snow and whatnot on the ground…plod on…plod on…. Continue reading
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Great Advice
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Soooooo
you can’t have your cake and eat it too … fine … i don’t eat cake… _____________________ just tell it like it is Continue reading
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Yup
sunday night sitting on the living room couch which is accommodating a retired person like me so…i have no qualms about it…yup Continue reading
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All Truth
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer Continue reading
A Pondering Mind 
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