Philosophy Devotee Prints

Allegory of the Cave

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?

'He who laughs last probably doesn't get it.'

"Je suis Descartes, donc, je pense."

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

'Just ask yourself -- Are you better off now than you were two thousand years ago?'

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

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

'The Questioner'

'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.'

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

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

"Hey! If you're here to marvel at the smallness of your existence within a glorious, vast and unknowable universe, there's a line!"

"It's a long way to Enlightenment. You might need some cash."

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

Pastorius wonders why.

Schrodinger's Black Box

Zenemies.

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

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

Corporate departments as a metaphor for growing up.

"...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?"

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Hello - I'm from the future..."

"Moulting"

"Any distinguishing 'PARSONAL' characteristics?"

That feeling when you know the preacher is talking directly to you.

"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!"

How world war III started.