Smart & Dumb Quotes From Respected Thinkers. My Favourite Philosophers.

Philosohers

Camus, Albert. The ultimate existentialist, Camus said Husserl, Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers and Sartre all shied away from the inevitable conclusion of existentialism of the unreasonable silence of he world is as pointless as Sisyphus condemned by the Gods to eternally push a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down again as he reaches the summit.  Camus backs himsef, and the reader, into a niesapable cordner that the attempt to resolve the conflict between human need and reality is irresolavable,given the very natue of human existence. To resolve it is to deny the very phenomenon one began with. Like Buddha, Camus says in the face of this absurdity we must ‘revolt’, meaning accepting the crushing fate but without th eresignation that ought to accompany it. What I don’t understand is why he rejects suicide as an option as we cannot solve the problem of the absurd by negating its existence and must imagine Sisyphus happy for ‘being aware of oen’s life, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum’. Perhaps he just focuses on the aspect of living and not any purpose, other than existence itself. Perhaps existence is life’s purpose.

the brilliant…

SARTRE “I believe that…the small movement which makes of a totally conditioned social being someone who does not render backcompletely what his conditioning has given him”

CAMUS OR RUSSELL “All the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday birghtness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death fo the solar system, and the whole temple of man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.”

 

 

the dumb…

EPICURUS: ” For truly there are gods, and knowledge of them is evident” (this is harder to even prove than one god).

MARTIN LUTHER “Religion is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, by more frequently thatn not stuggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates form God… Whoever wants to be Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason… Reason should be destroyed in Christians”  (Perhaps Luther wasn’t so dumb after all, that is if his intention was to strip humans of their minds to become the sheep the bible constantly implores them to be).