Now for your Pun-ishment, philosophically speaking

[bilbous]

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

This thread has now been Locked

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

I don't mean to Hegel with you,

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

perhaps I can offer you something off Descartes.

[emeraldfool]

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Lol, this quote gave me the most bizarre mental picture... Kinda makes you think.



Anyway, what the heck is this about...?

[bilbous]

Find a quotation preferably from some philosopher and then make a play on his name,

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

this Sartre of thing...


All these quotes have been cut and pasted from here

[emeraldfool]

Um... okay.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Pretty much my mantra. Though I'd prefer it with a Plato chips... Or maybe engraved on a Platonum wristlet...



(Have I ever mentioned how much I hate puns? )

[bilbous]

That actually seems to be quite an interesting set of sites of which the quote database is only a part.\
As to your dislike of puns, if I don't say it Simone Weil:

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

[Narure]

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don your clothing before you leave for work.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Fancy some bacon?

[bilbous]

The view only changes for the lead dog.

The Herolds praised your post, Narure, while hoping the Bacon would be Brown

[lordraleigh]

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Oh yes, surely. Lets struggle to achieve the Impossible!

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Oops, wrong quotes and I forgot the "="

[bilbous]

   Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Open your Iris, Murdoch ... I mean ... lordraleigh, and try to keep the theme!

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Sounds like this Bachelard had a maid come in to clean for him....

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

I guess if this topic is not going to be too popular I might as well get it out of my system before I Bayle.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

now that is just Confuciusing...

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Dewey really need to keep going?

[Narure]

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

I hope these fit the bill.

  Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" 

i dont want to waste your time with my bad puns so i wont dillard.

  Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

ahh but the best excuse is the doug ate the computer.

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

I bet it bugs you that this topic isnt popular

[bilbous]

Not really, puns are an acquired taste, and a lot of names are a real stretch to play with.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

it was a Nietzsche try though thank you for Baering with me and offering up your grand Larson-y. I hope it didn't Maher your reputation much.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

Want to Reid on?

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

It might lead to Anacharsis

[bilbous]

Charley was not outFoxed when he offered up this

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

Hand me those Robespierre I'm feeling a chill.

   Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Sontag the base on a pop fly or they'll throw you out.

   Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. 

Hmm, Kant seem to make a good joke, no wonder this thread died.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

I hope someone Getz my drift

I'm not a many-take guy. Each time it seems to get more stale. I get tired of hearing myself.

[Freddo]

I think I've lost the will to live.

[emeraldfool]

I think I've lost the will to live.

Interesting first post there Freddo.

I'm inclined to agree

[bilbous]

Don't give up it the Wolfe is at your door because

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.