Philosophy Thread

[ColoradoBoilermaker]

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

-Isaac Asimov

[ColoradoBoilermaker]

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

-Aristotle

[flogger]

When there are more people riding the cart than there are pulling the cart, the cart will eventually come to a stop.

[arbol]

Ozymandias
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

[ColoradoBoilermaker]

"Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward."

-Soren Kierkegaard