Eastern Philosophy Aficionado Pillows

Mass Confucian

Humans...What is their purpose?

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

"Je suis Descartes, donc, je pense."

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

'The Questioner'

"Good game, good game, nice game, namaste, good game, nice game ..."

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

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

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

Schrodinger's Black Box

Pastorius wonders why.

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

'The meaning of life is dog food.'

Zenemies.

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

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

"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

How world war III started.

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

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

"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.'

"Looks like your Yang is on the move again."

'Do you ever contemplate life's big questions?'

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