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diff --git a/local/.local/scripts/data/bigBoiQuotes.dat b/local/.local/scripts/data/bigBoiQuotes.dat deleted file mode 100644 index 8848d46..0000000 --- a/local/.local/scripts/data/bigBoiQuotes.dat +++ /dev/null @@ -1,142 +0,0 @@ -“The unexamined life is not worth living” – -Socrates -“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” – -Ludwig Wittgenstein -“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” – -William of Ockham -“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” – -Thomas Hobbes -“I think therefore I am” (“Cogito, ergo sum”) – -René Descartes -“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors” – -Martin Heidegger -“We live in the best of all possible worlds” – -Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -“What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational” – -G. W. F. Hegel -“God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.” – -Friedrich Nietzsche -“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” – -Albert Camus -“One cannot step twice in the same river” – -Heraclitus -“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation” – -Jeremy Bentham -“To be is to be perceived” (“Esse est percipi”)– -Bishop George Berkeley -“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination” – -Immanuel Kant -“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience” – -John Locke -“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us” – -Niccolo Machiavelli -“Liberty consists in doing what one desires” – -John Stuart Mill -“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true” – -Bertrand Russell -“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” – -Socrates -“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him” – -Voltaire -“This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities” – -Bertrand Russell -“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another” – -René Descartes -“Leisure is the mother of philosophy” – -Thomas Hobbes -“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language” – -Ludwig Wittgenstein -“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers” – -William James -“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” – -Aristotle -“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me” – -G. W. F. Hegel -“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” – -John Locke -“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward ” – -Søren Kierkegaard -“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know” – -Bertrand Russell -“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck” – -Immanuel Kant -“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits” – -William James -“History is Philosophy teaching by examples” – -Thucydides -“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god” – -Aristotle -“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” – -Plato -“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly” – -Francis Bacon -“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” – -mistakenly attributed to Edmund Burke -“Is man merely a mistake of God'n? Or God merely a mistake of man's?” – -Friedrich Nietzsche -“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong” – -Bertrand Russell -“Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people” – -Karl Marx -“Happiness is the highest good” – -Aristotle -“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil” – -Baruch Spinoza -“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it” – -Epicurus -“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable” – -G. W. F. Hegel -“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness” – -Immanuel Kant -“Man is condemned to be free” – -Jean-Paul Sartre -“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth” – -John Locke -“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves” – -Ludwig Wittgenstein -“That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless” – -Plato -“The only thing I know is that I know nothing” – -Socrates -“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” – -Voltaire (in parody of Leibniz) -“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays” – -Søren Kierkegaard -“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains” – -Jean-Jacques Rousseau -“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest” – -Denis Diderot -“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things” – -René Descartes -“Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative” – -Aristotle -“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature” – -Spinoza -“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it” – -Karl Marx -“It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence” – -W. K. Clifford -“Virtue is nothing else than right reason” – -Seneca the Younger -“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire” – -Epictetus -“In everything, there is a share of everything” – -Anaxagoras -“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion” – -Sir Francis Bacon -“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures” – -Democritus -“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature” – -John Locke -“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality” – -John Stuart Mill -“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident” – -Jean-Paul Sartre -“Man is the measure of all things” – -Protagoras -“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone” – -St. Augustine -“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” – -John Locke -"Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opurtunity" - -Seneca |