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· The Quotations Home Page - Alphabetical by Topic - Series 21 You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. Youth is a wonderful thing

· The Daily University Star ONLINE Opinions The German philosopher Arthur Shopenhauer said, "Not only is optimism wrong, but it mocks all those who suffer."

· Quotes May 2000 We forfeit 3/4 of our lives to be like other people. - Arthur Shopenhauer

· Another Philosopher named Shopenhauer wrote that, "the way to attain superiority in dealing with men is to let it be [clearly] seen that you are INDEPENDENT of them. And, [he added]..it is advisable to let every one of your acquaintances...feel now and then that you could very easily dispense with their company."

· The Retriever - Opinion As Arthur Shopenhauer stated, "With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable .... Health is by far the most important element to human happiness."

· Quotes about God, religion, philosophy, mortality, time, war, science & sex The fruits of Chrisitanity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place. -- Arthur Shopenhauer

· It was Shopenhauer who helped make Buddhism something of a household word among the educated classes of the 1850s. Shopenhauer was particularly impressed by Buddhism’s denial of God. He believed that Eastern religion had shown great brilliance by moving both beyond the concept of God, and beyond the notion of earthly or heavenly happiness. Buddhists recognized the all important fact of human suffering and did not shrink from it. They also recognized that morality did not derive from godly commandments but from the capacity of individuals to identify with one another and that the highest morality was one where the barrier between self and others was totally annihilated. Another aspect of Buddhist genius was the notion that the ‘will’ or ‘spiritual force’ in the universe was totally unknowable. Because people thought that they knew God’s will, they were constantly striving to achieve unrealizable goals. The payoff for Shopenhauer, and presumably for many Germans, was that this purposeless striving could be suspended by contemplation. For him, the contemplation was on art, music and other forms of culture than through meditation. But it allowed him to appreciate the moment without necessarily clinging to it. Other romantics also dipped into the Buddhist manner of relating to a transparent world. The artist Van Goth was impressed by the way that Buddhist artists could focus on something as simple a single blade of grass rather than having to elaborate a system. Westerners were beg

· Shadows Of Illusion "Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."...Arthur Shopenhauer

· Shadows Of Illusion "Happiness is a perfume, which you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself"

· Shadows Of Illusion Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

· Quotes: Loomy's most favourite Reality is the only obstacle to happiness. (Michael Irvin)

· German Philosophy - Arthur Schopenhauer "There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life." --Schopenhauer, Essays, Our Relation to Ourselves, sec. 24 "The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom." --Schopenhauer, Essays, Personality; or What a Man Is.

· Quotes Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have. -- Unknown

· Connections, Grids, & Ideas "Happiness is an active process, not a passive outcome" --John Dewey

· Not dancing, talking In each of the episodes, there are musings on how Socrates might help us to deal with unpopularity, how Epicurus thinks that consumerism cannot lead to happiness, how Seneca might help us face a broken heart, how Montaigne faced feelings of inadequacy, how a broken heart might be mended by thinking about Shopenhauer's views on romantic love, and how Nietzsche's philosophy can help us to cope with insurmountable hardship.

· Quotes May 2000 Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. - Francis Bacon Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. - Thomas Jefferson

· good & evil Criterion of Pleasure and Happiness: The philosophers who consider pleasure and happiness to be the criterion of good are also far from the truth. The criterion of pleasure and happiness is baseless. No single measure can be laid down for pleasure and happiness. The measures and standards differ from man to man. For example, likes and dislikes of the rich and the poor widely differ.

· Manifest Wolnych Najmitów Ona tez zacheca by kazdy napisal cos o swoich doswiadczeniach. To jest wizytówka Najmitów, ale i to nie jest konieczne. Wystarczy chec szczera.

· Entropy The letter stated that it had been known to the Society for quite some time that the laws a pretty hokey, but that this is the best that anyone had offered, so far. His experience changed my perception of the world. I would not trust entropy at all.

· Wired 2.03: The Economy of Ideas English biologist and philosopher Richard Dawkins proposed the idea of "memes," self-replicating patterns of information that propagate themselves across the ecologies of mind, a pattern of reproduction much like that of life forms.

· Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource Welcome to Meme Central, the center of the world of memetics. Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection. As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives. They are a kind of Drug of the Mind. Confused? Blame it on memes.

· McLuhan McLuhan was a master of aphorisms, and like Heidegger, he loved wordplay. The title of his best-selling book The Medium is the Massage is no exception. Maybe he was making a statement about the way that the media massage or pummel us, or perhaps he was making a pun on the new "mass-age." In any case the underlying notion is that the message is greatly impacted by the delivery system. Some would understand this position to be the ultimate in media determinism. If the content is obliterated by the channel, "what" we say is of little importance-only "how" we chose to deliver it. McLuhan's belief in technological determinism is obvious by his phrase, "we shape our tools and they in turn shape us" (quoted in Griffin, 1991, p. 294).

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· Dear Emily Postnews http://www.advicemeant.com/flame/ http://www.advicemeant.com/troll/trollone.html Guide to Flaming - Word Skills The 1996 Flame Convention agreed that "As innuendo can do so much damage, its use must be restricted to (a) retaliation against personal insult and (b) protection of vulnerable third parties." In practice, this has been taken to justify its use against people who are grossly sexist, racist or who have attacked those unable to protect themselves. But if all else fails, all's fair ...

· At the Saturday Cypherpunks physical meeting, Marianne Mueller (I think) was telling me about an experience where an old letter she'd written to someone showed up in an Alta Vista search. A personal letter, that is. How this happened was that the letter to her friend was buried several subdirectories deep in a directory he made accessible to the outside world. Presto, Alta Vista found it, indexed it, and made it keyword-searchable! (Humans are pretty bad at doing such meticulous file prep work, but all-seeing spiders are very good at seeing everything.)