Wednesday, July 28, 2010

notable quotes

This is for all the people who majored in philosophy in undergrad:
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Stage 1: You feel excited because you’re learning fascinating new ideas.
Stage 2: You feel sad because you realize you don’t actually understand them.
Stage 3: You feel excited again, because you think you’ve finally really figured them out.
Stage 4: You feel depressed because yes, you have figured them out, and they mean your life is pointless.

"Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money."
- Tim O'Reilly

"The experience of nothingness is now the point from which nearly every reflective man begins his adult life.
- Michael Novak

"The intellectual problem of the modern world is how to be a relativist without being a nihilist."
- Wilfred Cantwell Smith

"We have heard that man is a being in search of meaning. We have seen that today his search is unsatisfied and thus constitutes the pathology of our age."
- Viktor Frank

Those who seek the truth deserve the penalty of finding it.
- Leo Tolstoy

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