Daily Wisdom

[MattNJ]

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln

 

[Althavis]

Where would I go...
To the left where nothing is right......
Or.......to the right where nothing is left.... But you forgot one thing those are just options...So I just move forward knowing what may come of my own fate and path

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

"nothing has ever been achieved though peaceful protests" - Gundy

 

[pleasancer benediction]

Who's with me?

ps:I love animals they are full of life.

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[pyf]

Terry Pratchett - Wikipedia
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather - Wikipedia

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[Althavis]

Laifu starts with waifu

 

[chobibo]

"The butt hurts more than the heart." ~ chobibo

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[Svetli]

''chobibo is the wisest of wisests.'' ~ Svetli

 

[deepstrasz]

“After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[Althavis]

Love starts with a simple anime and jail starts with a single loli

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[chobibo]

"I'm sure that only with great jealousy will you ever wish your fellow man to be imprisoned because of a loli." ~ chobibo

 

[deepstrasz]

“People] find—both in themselves and outside themselves—many means that are very helpful in seeking their own advantage, e.g., eyes for seeing, teeth for chewing, plants and animals for food, the sun for light, the sea for supporting fish … Hence, they consider all natural things as means to their own advantage. And knowing that they had found these means, not provided them for themselves, they had reason to believe that there was someone else who had prepared those means for their use. For after they considered things as means, they could not believe that the things had made themselves; but from the means they were accustomed to prepare for themselves, they had to infer that there was a ruler, or a number of rulers of nature, endowed with human freedom, who had taken care of all things for them, and made all things for their use.

And since they had never heard anything about the temperament of these rulers, they had to judge it from their own. Hence, they maintained that the Gods direct all things for the use of men in order to bind men to them and be held by men in the highest honor. So it has happened that each of them has thought up from his own temperament different ways of worshipping God, so that God might love them above all the rest, and direct the whole of Nature according to the needs of their blind desire and insatiable greed. Thus this prejudice was changed into superstition, and struck deep roots in their minds.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[Championfighter25]

''It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows'' - Epictetus

''There is nothing so horrible in nature as to see a beautiful theory murdered by an ugly gang of facts'' - Author Unknown

''If you’re the smartest person in a room you’re in the wrong room'' - Author Unknown

''If you get angry every time you have a right to be, you will spend your whole being pissed off'' - Author Unknown

 

[deepstrasz]

“Most errors consist only in our not rightly applying names to things. For when someone says that the lines which are drawn from the center of a circle to its circumference are unequal, he surely understands (then at least) by a circle something different from what mathematicians understand. Similarly, when men err in calculating they have certain numbers in their mind and different ones on the paper. So if you consider what they have in mind, they really do not err, though they seem to err because we think they have in their mind the numbers which are on the paper. If this were not so, we would not believe that they were erring, just as I did not believe that he was erring whom I recently heard cry out that his courtyard had flown into his neighbor's hen, because what he had in mind seemed sufficiently clear to me.

And most controversies have arisen from this, that men do not rightly explain their own mind, or interpret the mind of the other man badly. For really, when they contradict one another most vehemently, they either have the same thoughts, or they are thinking of different things, so that what they think are errors and absurdities in the other are not.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[chobibo]

 

[deepstrasz]

“Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[chobibo]

"Desire is the very essence of man." ~ Baruch Spinoza

 

[deepstrasz]

“Love is nothing but Joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause"
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[pyf]

@Shar Dundred

 

[deepstrasz]

“I care not for the girdings of superstition, for superstition is the bitter enemy of knowledge & true morality. Yes; it has come to this! Men who openly confess that they can form no idea of God, & only know him through created things, of which they know not the causes, can unblushingly accuse philosophers of Atheism.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[pyf]

 

[deepstrasz]

“those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[pyf]

 

[deepstrasz]

“The formation of society serves not only for defensive purposes, but is also very useful, and, indeed, absolutely necessary, as rendering possible the division of labor. If men did not render mutual assistance to each other, no one would have either the skill or the time to provide for his own sustenance and preservation: for all men are not equally apt for all work, and no one would be capable of preparing all that he individually stood in need of. Strength and time, I repeat, would fail, if every one had in person to plow, to sow, to reap, to grind corn, to cook, to weave, to stitch and perform the other numerous functions required to keep life going; to say nothing of the arts and sciences which are also entirely necessary to the perfection and blessedness of human nature.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[pyf]

“The formation of society serves not only for defensive purposes, but is also very useful, and, indeed, absolutely necessary, as rendering possible the division of labor. If men did not render mutual assistance to each other, no one would have either the skill or the time to provide for his own sustenance and preservation: for all men are not equally apt for all work, and no one would be capable of preparing all that he individually stood in need of. Strength and time, I repeat, would fail, if every one had in person to plow, to sow, to reap, to grind corn, to cook, to weave, to stitch and perform the other numerous functions required to keep life going; to say nothing of the arts and sciences which are also entirely necessary to the perfection and blessedness of human nature.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

Cooler version imho:
The Bouletcorp » Homo Technologicus


Boulet (comics) - Wikipedia

 

[deepstrasz]

“Finally, it follows from the preceding proposition that the joy by which the drunkard is enslaved is altogether different from the joy which is the portion of the philosopher,--a think I wished just to hint in passing.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[dreambeliever]

 

[deepstrasz]

“It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the Word of God, and it is no more permissible to say of Scripture that it is mutilated and contaminated than to say this of God’s Word. In reply, I have to say that such objectors are carrying their piety too far, and are turning religion into superstition; indeed, instead of God’s Word they are beginning to worship likenesses and images, that is, paper and ink.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[Althavis]

There is no right or wrong in your own decisions. It is about regretting less.

 

[deepstrasz]

“Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[Althavis]

"To ask why we fight... ... is to ask why the leaves fall. It is in their nature. Perhaps, there is a better question.
Why do we fight? To protect Home, and Family... To preserve Balance, and bring Harmony.
For my kind, the true question is: What is worth fighting for?"

- Chen Stormstout
The Legendary Brewmaster

 

[deepstrasz]

“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the sanctuary of ignorance.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[chobibo]

"The answers you get depend on the questions you ask." ~ Thomas Kuhn

 

[deepstrasz]

“These instances are enough to show, that the body can by the sole laws of its nature do many things which the mind wonders at.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[deepstrasz]

“Emotion, which is called a passivity of the soul, is a confused idea, whereby the mind affirms concerning its body, or any part thereof, a force for existence (existendi vis) greater or less than before, and by the presence of which the mind is determined to think of one thing rather than another.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[chobibo]

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.” ~ George Carlin

 

[Althavis]

"By fart, Be purged."

 

[deepstrasz]

“But, after men began to form general ideas, to think out types of houses, buildings, towers, &c., and to prefer certain types to others, it came about, that each man called perfect that which he saw agree with the general idea he had formed of the thing in question, and called imperfect that which he saw agree less with his own preconceived type, even though it had evidently been completed in accordance with the idea of its artificer. This seems to be the only reason for calling natural phenomena, which, indeed, are not made with human hands, perfect or imperfect: for men are wont to form general ideas of things natural, no less than of things artificial, and such ideas they hold as types, believing that Nature (who they think does nothing without an object) has them in view, and has set them as types before herself. Therefore, when they behold something in Nature, which does not wholly conform to the preconceived type which they have formed of the thing in question, they say that Nature has fallen short or has blundered, and has left her work incomplete.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[chobibo]

"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves." ~ Jose Rizal

 

[deepstrasz]

"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves."

Only anarchy.

 

[chobibo]

Panty and Stockings too.

 

[deepstrasz]

“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's general laws. They appear to conceive man to be situated in nature as a kingdom within a kingdom: for they believe that he disturbs rather than follows nature's order, that he has absolute control over his actions, and that he is determined solely by himself. They attribute human infirmities and fickleness, not to the power of nature in general, but to some mysterious flaw in the nature of man, which accordingly they bemoan, deride, despise, or, as usually happens, abuse: he, who succeeds in hitting off the weakness of the human mind more eloquently or more acutely than his fellows, is looked upon as a seer. [...] Such persons will, doubtless think it strange that I should attempt to treat of human vice and folly geometrically, and should wish to set forth with rigid reasoning those matters which they cry out against as repugnant to reason, frivolous, absurd, and dreadful. However, such is my plan.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[chobibo]

"See you soon." ~ Predator, Aliens vs Predator (1994)

 

[deepstrasz]

“Experience day by day protested and showed by infinite examples, that good and evil fortunes fall to the lot of pious and impious alike; still they would not abandon their inveterate prejudice, for it was more easy for them to class such contradictions among other unknown things of whose use they were ignorant, and thus to retain their actual and innate condition of ignorance, than to destroy the whole fabric of their reasoning and start afresh. They therefore laid down as an axiom, that God's judgments far transcend human understanding. Such a doctrine might well have sufficed to conceal the truth from the human race for all eternity, if mathematics had not furnished another standard of verity in considering solely the essence and properties of figures without regard to their final causes. There are other reasons (which I need not mention here) besides mathematics, which might have caused men's minds to be directed to these general prejudices, and have led them to the knowledge of the truth.”
~Baruch Spinoza.

 

[Althavis]

Live by these words: lok'tar ogar.
Victory....or death.

- Garrosh Hellscream

 

[deepstrasz]

“The human mind is the very idea or knowledge of the human body (II. xiii.), which (II. ix.) is in God, in so far as he is regarded as affected by another idea of a particular thing actually existing: or, inasmuch as (Post. iv.) the human body stands in need of very many bodies whereby it is, as it were, continually regenerated; and the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of causes (II. vii.); this idea will therefore be in God, in so far as he is regarded as affected by the ideas of very many particular things. Thus God has the idea of the human body, or knows the human body, in so far as he is affected by very many other ideas, and not in so far as he constitutes the nature of the human mind; that is (by II. xi. Coroll.), the human mind does not know the human body.”
~Baruch Spinoza.