Quotes by Philosophers - Page 332

Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.
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With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.
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Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.
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Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.
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Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.
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An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.
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Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.
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Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.
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You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.
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Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.
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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.
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A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.
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Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women’s greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man.
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Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.
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When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.
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The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
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One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.
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The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.
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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
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Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.
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We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.
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We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.
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More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.
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Some people will hate you for not loving them.
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We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.
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The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.
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A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.
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Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.
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Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.
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Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.
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A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.
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More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.
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Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.
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Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.
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Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.
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Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
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Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.
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A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.
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If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.
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Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.
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In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.
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Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.
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Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.
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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
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To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?
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The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.
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As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.
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In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.
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For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.
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Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.
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The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.
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Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.
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There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.
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Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.
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We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.
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Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.
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The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.
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Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.
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When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.
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Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.
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