Your Favorite Philosopher's Quote

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Heard this today, had to post it.

" When the power of love over comes the love for power, the world will know peace "
 
“That accursed Averroes”

Or

“ille maledictus Averroes”

In De Spiritualitate Et Immortalitate Animae Humane

I really know how the author feels.

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JohnDamian said:
“That accursed Averroes”

Or

“ille maledictus Averroes”

In De Spiritualitate Et Immortalitate Animae Humane

I really know how the author feels.

👍
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I don’t reckon you can tell us what this stuff means, partner?
 
dcastlen50 said:
I don’t reckon you can tell us what this stuff means, partner?
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The Islamic philosopher Abū 'l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd, often called Averroes is very annoying in the field of philosophy; to myself at least. This is why I found the statement so funny; in the middle of a serious discussion on the immortality of the soul he (Bl Duns Scotus) just blurts it out - it is wonderful because Averroes is a very irritating philosopher to deal with on this issue; as he (Averroes) argues a perculiar type of seperation of the soul. I shall give the full quote;

"No philosopher of any not can be found to deny this except that accursed Averroes in his commentary on Die Anima bk III where his fantastic conception, intelligible neither to himself nor to others, assumes the intellective part of man to be a sort of seperate substance united to man through the medium of sense images."*

I found it wonderful primarily because Averroes position is frustratingly absurd; and also that the context of the author - after reading about two hundred pages of dry analysis of things I came across this quote; and the very fact that it is so humanly impatient is delightful, and the fact that it is so honestly retained instead of being edited out after 700 years is beutifully honest. I know his frustration.

(by “this” he means the defintion of rational as a distinction of mans intellective soul, essential to man)

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
–George Santayana

It’s either that or Terry Pratchett…
“Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.”
 
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
From my grandmother when she was giving me marriage advice (she lived to be 98, and lived on her own, drove herself, played bingo every wednesday and went out dancing every Saturday until the very day of her death.
‘You know, you’ll have opportunities to stray. You know that, right? People do it all the time nowadays. Nowadays, everyone cheats. But I say this: Only an idiot goes out for KFC when you got steak at home.’
AHAHAHA!
Love it!

Bonus quote, when asked how she lived so long, she said 'Gossip. I’m a terrible gossip. If I don’t make it to Wednesday night bingo, I don’t get the goods on everyone else. If I die, it’s gonna be after bingo.

LOL!
 
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