Classical Philosophy Enthusiast Gifts

'Syllogisms won't do you any good here, Mr Aristotle.'

Humans...What is their purpose?

"Ooh, ooh, I know this koan! I got it! Pick me! Pick me!"

5pm Happy Hour. 6pm discussion: what is true happiness?

Road sign: 'No Passing Zone... This, too, shall pass.'

"Je suis Descartes, donc, je pense."

'He was just saying that all things come to him who waits and, sure enough, along came a lightning bolt.'

'The Questioner'

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

'Wow! -- Talk about a paradigm shift!'

"Hey, it's not all fire and brimstone anymore—one of our nine circles is even smoke-free."

'The meaning of life is dog food.'

"Hey, I'm just playing devil's avocado!"

"Existentialist Trail. Get lost then found. Nietzsche Park System"

Schrodinger's Black Box

Zenemies.

"Philosophy Department. Why may I direct your call?"

Pastorius wonders why.

"Ever feel like even when you're barking at something you're still barking at nothing?"

"...I don't believe in the past or the future. I don't even believe in right now. Everyone remembers the past differently. Everyone imagines the future differently. Everyone even disagrees about what's happening right now. So who's to say tomorrow what you and I did tonight?"

"Mrs. Marsha Mullhouse, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, asks, "Are You subject to the laws of physics, or are the laws of physics subject to You?"

"I never subscribed to Hobbes' state of nature theory until the night we left the kids without a sitter."

Arthur Schopenhauer

'There is no past. No future. Only the present, which is changing every instant. Time is merely an illusion. Got it?'

How world war III started.

"Well, I think we come back as newspapers." "You're nuts."

"What's so wrong with always living in the present?"

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

"An excellent defense. Let's give her the doctorate."

'All cats have four legs. I have four legs. Therefore, I am a cat.'

Human rights

'I'm afraid I'll fall and no one will hear me.'

'And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.' -- Thomas Hobbes, 'I dated a guy like that once.'

"Let's throw another ideologue on the fire."

I downloaded Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" into it's memory, and now the "command" key isn't working.