General Discussions

**serandfae** · 11-10-2007, 09:56 AM

In another thread here, we started touching on some of Nietzsche's philosophy. What philosophers do you follow, and why?

**xprmnt** · 11-10-2007, 11:11 AM

Personally I don't "follow" any philosophers I usually use the "nofollow" attribute (just a joke)

but I do like words of wisdom some of these people have said at times

my two favorite are

Heraclitus: everything is "in flux" or Nothing stays Constant (in Greek "Ta Panta Rei")

Lao Tze (Confucius): I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand

**joder** · 11-10-2007, 12:18 PM

I think each individual has to develop their own philosophy. It's good to get ideas from different philosophers and schools of thought but NONE of them have it all right. What is important is for a person to use critical thinking skills and to look at and evaluate different points of view.

**serandfae** · 11-10-2007, 12:30 PM

True enough. Perhaps I should rephrase the question to read: What philosophers/philosophies do you like, or influence your worldview?

**fastreplies** · 11-10-2007, 01:01 PM

Zen helped me to understand world around and to see it in different light

fastreplies

**NullPointer** · 11-10-2007, 08:46 PM

Descartes. I'm not sure any of you exist.

**ForrestCroce** · 11-10-2007, 10:47 PM

The worrisome part is that's not the first time someone has told me I don't exist.

I borrow a lot from plenty of different philosophies. Sort of pick and choose according to what I go through in life. Buddhism is good mental floss, but all of the 'old' greats lived in a very different world than ours. So, one of my favorite philosophers is my friend Naomi.

**serandfae** · 11-11-2007, 11:27 AM

To paraphrase Heisenberg, to observe affects what is observed, a scientific way of saying we are all connected.

**joder** · 12-29-2007, 12:59 AM

My family went to Barnes and Noble today. I picked up their edition of Thus Spake Zarathustra. I will post back my thoughts to this thread

(Also picked up Origin of Species. I had gotten rid of my old one that fell apart.

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**cbwm** · 12-29-2007, 09:02 AM

I love Forrest's Buddha quote, though I think the things that agree our own reason and common sense sometimes frighten us and we choose to believe something else out of fear.

Niccolo Machiavelli and Forrest Gump

**serandfae** · 12-29-2007, 12:30 PM

The philosophy writings of Albert Einstein have influenced me since I was in grade school. The first collection of his writings has an essay on religion and science that is a must-read.

**Learning Newbie** · 12-31-2007, 04:51 PM

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.