“Teleologicexistantialalthiest”
Woody Allen – “Sleeper”

“The only absolute knowledge attained by man is that life is meaningless.”
Woody Allen – “Hannah and her sisters”

W.A. “Your getting on in your years aren’t you afraid of dying?”
FATHER “Why should I be afraid?”
W.A. “Cause you won’t exist?”
FATHER “So!”
W.A “That thought doesn’t terrify you?”
FATHER “Who thinks such nonsense…now I’m alive when I’m dead I will be dead!”
W.A. “I don’t understand aren’t you frightened?”
FATHER “Of what I’ll be unconscious!”
W.A. “Yeah I know but never to exist again?”
FATHER “How do you know.”
W.A. “It certainly doesn’t look promising?”
FATHER “Who knows what’ll be; I’ll either be unconscious or I won’t; if not I’ll deal with it then. I’m not going to
deal with it now if I’m going to be unconscious!”
Woody Allen – “Hannah and her sisters”

“No matter how elaborate a philosophical system you work out, in the end it's got to be incomplete.”
Woody Allen – “Crimes and Misdemeanors”

“This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "doc my brother's crazy, he thinks he’s a chicken, and err the doctor says why don't you turn him in? I would but I need the eggs. Well, I guess that's pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know their totally irrational and crazy and observed but most of us keep going through it because most of us need the eggs.”
Woody Allen – “Annie Hall”

“All people know the same truth, our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.”
Woody Allen – “Deconstructing Harry”

“I had long ago thought of doing an existential murder mystery in which a college professor commits suicide and l then go about proving that given his philosophy, there's no way he could have committed the suicide. That there could not have been a choice he could have made given the content of his intellectual life. And so l prove that it's a murder.”
Woody Allen – “Woody Allen on Woody Allen- conversations with Stig Bjorkman.”

“Morality is so intricately determined by the process of historical evolution that an understanding of that processes virtually dictates the proper moral posture.”
Neil J. Smelter – “Karl Marx on society & social change” Introduction

"I was 10 years old when I was born.
I was 20 when I died.
At 30, I realsied that I had died.
When I was 40, I new I was dead.
I was 50 years old when I began to own my funeral speech.
A 60 I was a renowned speaker.
With 70 years I spoke about life.
With 80 I spoke of love.
At 90 I speak about the future.
With 100 years, I let myself rejuvenate.”
Joe Zawinul and the Zawinul Syndicate - Disc 2 track 5 'Success' Joe Zawinul

“The distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property.”
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels – “The Communist Manifesto”

“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths.”
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels – “The Communist Manifesto”

“From the moment when labor can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolized, i.e. from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say, individuality vanishes.”
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels – “The Communist Manifesto”

“The greatest thing in life is not having a purpose, but finding a purpose.”
T.V. Series – “Third Rock From the Sun”

“A thing has as many meanings as there are forces capable of seizing it.”Brian Massumi

“Unless one knows well about others, it is not possible to know oneself.”
Miyamoto Musashi – “The Book of Five Rings”

“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form, form is no other than emptiness, emptiness is no other than form, that which is form is emptiness, that which is emptiness is form.”Miyamoto Musashi – “The Book of Five Rings”

“All that exists, exists relative to the other”
Miyamoto Musashi – “The Book of Five Rings”

“The nature of reality is a process, a continuous changing flow.”
Miyamoto Musashi – “The Book of Five Rings”

“Our identity is formed in that moment when we put it on the line, reaching out to or at least interacting with the other.”Franc Raella

“What is happy? Happy is for children.”
Movie written by Alexander Stille - “Falcone”

“What we believe is an image of the truth.” Movie written & directed byJean Luc Goda - “Alas for me”

“Should not nothing less than the opposite be the proper disguise under which the shame of a god goes abroad?” Section-43
Friedrich Nietzhe – “Beyond good and evil”

“One has to get rid of the bad taste of wanting to be in agreement with many.”
Section-40
Friedrich Nietzhe – “Beyond good and evil”

“...by reflecting on the notion of doubt itself, Descartes perceives that, as to know is a greater perfection than to doubt, he must be an imperfect being. But an imperfect being cannot produce the idea of perfection which he nevertheless possesses. No other being, imperfect like himself, could have given it to him; only a perfect being could have done so, therefore a perfect being God exists.”René Descrates - “Discourse on Method and the Meditations”

“...to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts.”
René Descrates - “Discourse on Method and the Meditations”

“Descartes exists, possesses the idea of perfection, and he himself, imperfect. If he had created himself, he would have created himself perfect. He has therefore been created by another who must of necessity be perfect since Descartes has the idea of perfection.”
René Descrates - “Discourse on Method and the Meditations”

“I think, therefore I am (cogito ergo sum).”
René Descrates - “Discourse on Method and the Meditations”

“...the sense of sight assures us no less truth of its objects than do the senses of smell and hearing, whereas neither our imagination nor our senses could ever assure us of anything, if our understanding did not intervene.”
René Descrates - “Discourse on Method and the Meditations”

“I have recognised that I exist, and I, who recognize I exist, seek to discover what I am.”
René Descrates - “Discourse on Method and the Meditations”

“...we perceive bodies only by the understanding which is in us, and not by the imagination, or the senses and that we do not perceive them or touching them, but only because we conceive them in thought.”
René Descrates - “Discourse on Method and the Meditations”

“...because it is almost impossible to rid oneself so quickly of a long-held opinion, I should do well to pause at this point, so that, by long meditation, I may imprint this now knowledge more deeply in my memory.”
René Descrates - “Discourse on Method and the Meditations”

“Why do we have a mind if not to get our way?”
Dostoevsky

“A well planned life should have an effective climax.”
Jean Paul Starrett – “Changing the Skyline”

“...Modern man is an animal whose politics places his existence as a living being in question.”
Michel Foucault – “Discipline and Punish”

“He would have been admired in the world and his name never forgotten; but it is one thing to be admired, another to be a guiding star that saves the anguished.”
Søren Kierkegaard – “Fear and Trembling”

“...for it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what l do, and there is surely no one who thinks that anyone became great by winning the big lottery prize.”
Søren Kierkegaard – “Fear and Trembling”

“...the odd number is higher than the even.”
Søren Kierkegaard – “Fear and Trembling”
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“One's better as a pair”
Movie directed byJean Luc Goda - “Hail Marry”

“Sometimes your loose things Fit, and sometimes you find them; just let it be what it is.”
Written by & Directed by Alan Rudolph – “After Glow”

“The world of becoming contains all the things perceived by our senses, about which no certain and final knowledge is possible.”
Plato - “Timaeus and Critias”

“A true Zen saying, nothing is what l want.”
Frank Zappa - “Zappa/Mothers-Roxy & Elsewhere” -Track 3 “Dummy up”

“The singularity of purpose!”
Robert Redford

But if it ain't then it must be.
Else what is the it that ain't?
But what are the it's that ain't?
Take any it you like and it ain't it.
Trouble is there just ain't no it's that ain't.
Whatever "it" is, it is truly comical.
Those who ask such questions need (and deserve)
a sharp blow to the head.
(Graffiti in a philosophy department bathroom)
Ermanno Bencivenga - “Looser Ends” (The practice of philosophy)

“Live life like an exclamation not an exclamation.”
Sarha Marie - Big Brother contestant

“What if this is as good as gets!”
Movie - “As good as it gets”

“I think the hallmark of society is not to act on your impulses; and emotions are impulses.”
Red Simons - ABC radio

“I love life, who ever figured out the concept is great.”
Jonathan Tolman Cowle

“If life is an exam cheat.”
John Birmingham

“One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.”
Movie - “Die another day”

“A pessimist is an optimist with more information.”
Mick (Waterfront Deli)

“Life… it only makes sense when you look at it backwards, too bad we got to live it forwards.”
Movie - written by Karen Sprecher and Jil Sprecher “13 conversations about one thing”

“Somebody told me the other day; there are 3 stages in life; youth, middle aged and gee you look great.”
Burt Lancaster (at the logies in the 1970's)

“How do we make knowledge.”
Gordon Harvey -Philosophy symposium at “Thangs Café”

“If two people possess opposing views on whether or not an object is beautiful; and assuming we apply the philosophy that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’; then it must imply that the process to which one formulates their position is more important than the object itself.”
Billy Kavellaris

“I’m so happy to be a part of life?”
Billy Kavellaris

“You can argue about the meaning of life all you want; but there is no meaning in death.”
Billy Kavellaris

“There is no truth and there is no reason, there just is”
Billy Kavellaris

“There is no meaning to life because life is enough”
Rodrigo Sandoval (the day of his baby boy)

Reporter: “Are you any closer to finding the meaning of life?”
Graham Kennedy: “No, I’m more interested in finding the meaning of death”

“We can never see past the choices we don’t understand.”
Movie - “The Matrix-Reloaded”

“Choice is an illusion between those with power and those without.”
Movie - “The Matrix-Reloaded”

“We are not here because we are free, we are here because we are not free. There is no escaping reason; no changing purpose because as we both know without purpose we would not exist. It is purpose that created us.”
Movie - “The Matrix-Reloaded”

“Our only hope, our only peace, is to understand, to understand why. ‘Why’ is what separates us from them… you from me. ‘Why’ is the only real source of power. Without it, you are powerless.”
Movie - “The Matrix-Reloaded”

“Hope is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and greatest weakness.”
Movie - “The Matrix-Reloaded”

“There is only one constant. One Universal. It is the only one real truth. Causality, action and reaction, cause and effect.”
Movie - “The Matrix-Reloaded”

“They say that...money don’t buy you happiness but, but it'll pay for the search.”
Prince - “one night alone...live!”(disc 2) track 5 “nothing compares to you”

“do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you"... I mean I'm no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas... .”
Movie - “Apocalypse now” - movie

“Think, it ain't illegal yet!”
George Clinton - “Maggot Brain”

“You are what you think.”
ABC -Christine talk back caller

“You are what you love, not what loves you.”
Movie - “Adaptation”

“life; just wasn’t the right environment for me.”
T.V. Show - “Six feet under”

“So how is life?”
“So how is death?”
T.V. Show - “Six feet under”

“We can’t think inside our thoughts.”
Patrick Emerton– “Thangs” Philosophy Cafe

A: “Aren’t we making a mountain out of a mole hill?”
Gordon Harvey: “We are just looking at the mole hill very closely!”
“Thangs” Philosophy Cafe

“Of course, no ideology would be caught dead admitting to an utopian ideal. That would imply hope when what he is delivering is truth.”John Ralston Saul - “The Unconscious Civilization”

“Compassion is a wonderful thing. It's what one feels when one looks at a squashed caterpillar. An elevating experience. One can let oneself spread go and spread-you know, like taking a girdle off. You don't have to hold your stomach, your heart or your spirit up-when you feel compassion. All you have to do is look down it's much easier. When you look up, you get a pain in the neck. Compassion the greatest virtue. lt justifies suffering. There's got to be suffering in the world, else how would we be virtuous and feel compassion. Oh, it has an antithesis-but such a hard, demanding one...Admiration...But that takes more than a girdle...So l say that anyone for whom we can't feel sorry is a vicious person.”
Ayn Rand - “The Fountain Head”

“But why do we have this desperate need to believe that the solving of a single problem will solve all our problems.”
John Ralston Saul - “The Unconscious Civilization”

''I am because you are."
John Ralston Saul - "On Equilibrium" (Ubuntu-European African philosophy)

''The idea of purpose is always incomplete."
John Ralston Saul - "On Equilibrium"

"One thing is fairly clear: if you accept that reason is thought, then neither the universe nor nature is rational. They do not think or argue. Nor are they irrational since they make sense. Rather they are non rational. A better word might be that they are animist"

“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”Bertolt Brecht

“To me it’s not how long I live it’s how I live.”
Anthony Robbins – ‘Your hour of power’

“The past does not equal the future unless you live there.”
Anthony Robbins – ‘Your hour of power’

“I am not what I am.”
Shakespeare - "Othello"

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”
Jean Matthew Barrie

“You are not your name, you are not your face.”
Maharaji

“Feeling unhappiness is a sign from life to become more conscious.”
Michael Domeyko Rowland- “The life act manual”

TO KNOW

The right half of the our brain
is non-verbal
Its language is symbolic, and visual.
It is the home of our imagination.

The left half is analytical, verbal,
the center of linguistic expression

They have difficulties
in understanding each other,
which partly explains
why art can seldom be verbalized.
Martin Heidegger

“I say fuck the truth! But the truth usually fucks you!”
Movie - “Angels In America”

“How can you live your life by what you want?… live by what you believe.”
Movie - “Angels In America”

“Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates between happiness and sorrow, a good deed a bad deed, one is able to realise freedom”
“The teachings of Buddha”

“To worry in anticipation or to regret for the past is like the reeds that are cut and wither away.”
“The teachings of Buddha”

“One should forget oneself for the sake of one’s family; one should forget one’s family for the sake of one’s village; one should forget one’s village for the sake of the nation; and one should forget everything for the sake of Enlightenment.”
“The teachings of Buddha”

“Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.”
“The teachings of Buddha”

“Education doesn’t make you happy, and nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we are free if we are; if because we’ve been educated if we have, but because education might be the means by which we realise that we are happy.”
“Iris” – Movie

“What is wrong with the admission that something exists beyond our understanding?”
Dan Brown – “Angels & Demonds”

“The Human species was given domain over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image but it paid the price for its privilege that finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.”
Jonathan Franzen – “The Correction”

“The human brain is a web of a hundred billion neurons, maybe as many as two hundred billion, with trillions on axons and dendrites exchanging quadrillions of messages by way of at least fifty different transmitters. The organ which we observe and make sense of the universes, by comfortable margarine, the most complex thing we know of in that universe. And yet it's also a lump of meat.”
Jonathan Franzen – “How to be alone” – ‘My fathers brain’

“There is no such thing as nothing, there is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity.”
‘I heart Huckabees’ – movie written and directed by David O. Russell

"why? Mr. Anderson why? do you do it? Why, why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe your fighting for something for more than your survival? Could you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom or truth perhaps peace could it be for love! Illusions Mr. Anderson vagaries of perception, temporary constructs of the feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose!
'The Matrix' – Revolution written by Andy & Larry Wachowski

‘World’
All things are
Exactly as they are

The joy in life comes from
Complete reception,
Physical, psychic and spiritual.

A Japanese Zen monk meditating on
things as they are allows his mind
without leaving a trace.

Through this,
He aims at oneness with the world,
Not at escaping from it.

He obtains
An immediate seeing into the
Nature of things
instead of the usual understanding
through analysis and logic.
Marjaana Kinnerma

"Everybody has their truth. You have yours and I have mine. What matters is the true truth."
The 24th day

“To be is to be perceived”
George Berkley

“All objects of experience are ideas.”
George Berkley

“Only the philosopher strives to be awake.”
Sophocles

"We don’t do, we just are"
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"You can’t control time but you can control how you experience it."
Billy Kavellaris

"St Augustine asked the right question: ‘‘does freedom come from chance?'' And you must remember that quantum mechanics guarantees chance.''
Frank Herbert-'The Jesus incident."

"Do we need to reconstruct our entire societies in terms of such an existential sense of threat... and it means that you are at war in your mind as well as in practice"
Anthony Bourke-ABC Philosophers Zone

"If the terrorist want you to undermine your democracy and your values and your sense of religious tolerance and pluralism, why are we actually helping them? Why are we actually talking about Islam as a threat rather of particular people and narrow interpretations of it?
Anthony Bourke-ABC Philosophers Zone

"It is sometimes said often by scientists that in any university the second least expensive department to run is mathematics, because with a mathematician all you need is a desk a pen and a waste paper basket. But the very cheapest department is philosophy because with that you don't even need the waste paper basket."
Allan Sauders-ABC Philosophers Zone

"Everything ends in death."
'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' - Louis de Bernieres

"The real question is: Is there anything we can think of which, by the mere fact that we can think of it, is shown to exist outside our thought? Every philosopher would like to say yes, because a philosopher’s job is to find out things the world by thinking rather than observing. If yes the right answer, there is a bridge from pure thought to things. If not, not."
Bertrand Russell