Philosophy Now Forum

johngalthasspoken wrote:"If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts."

- Camille Paglia

The Scotsman newspaper [url]http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/scottish-quote-of-the-day-jimmy-reid-glasgow-university-1972-1-2302054[/url] wrote:Trade union activist and politician Jimmy Reid was the spokesman and one of the leaders of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in of 1971-72 in which workers refused to accept the liquidation of the company and continued to work without pay in protest.

Subsequently elected rector of Glasgow University, Reid’s inaugural speech in 1972 was described by the New York Times as the greatest speech since the Gettysburg Address. It is still considered one of the greatest ever given in Scotland.

Jimmy Reid wrote:“A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

This is how it starts, and, before you know where you are, you’re a fully paid-up member of the rat pack. The price is too high.”

thedoc wrote:Girls should know how to play 3 things, Golf, Tennis, and Dumb. - ?

Evola, Julius wrote:America ... has created a 'civilization' that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of praxis and productivity; it has put the quest for profit, great industrial production, and mechanical, visible, and quantitative achievements over any other interest. It has generated a soulless greatness of a purely technological and collective nature, lacking any background of transcendence, inner light, and true spirituality. America has [built a society where] man becomes a mere instrument of production and material productivity within a conformist social conglomerate.

Lynn wrote:

The Scotsman newspaper [url]http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/scottish-quote-of-the-day-jimmy-reid-glasgow-university-1972-1-2302054[/url] wrote:Trade union activist and politician Jimmy Reid was the spokesman and one of the leaders of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in of 1971-72 in which workers refused to accept the liquidation of the company and continued to work without pay in protest.

Subsequently elected rector of Glasgow University, Reid’s inaugural speech in 1972 was described by the New York Times as the greatest speech since the Gettysburg Address. It is still considered one of the greatest ever given in Scotland.

Jimmy Reid wrote:“A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

This is how it starts, and, before you know where you are, you’re a fully paid-up member of the rat pack. The price is too high.”

thedoc wrote:Girls should know how to play 3 things, Golf, Tennis, and Dumb. - ?

Nietzsche, Friedrich wrote:A great man - a man whom nature has constructed and invented in the grand style - what is he?

First: there is a long logic in all of his activity, hard to survey because of its length, and consequently misleading; he has the ability to extend his will across great stretches of his life and to despise and reject everything petty about him...

Secondly: he is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of "opinion"; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and "respectability"...
If he cannot lead, he goes alone; then it may happen that he may snarl at some things he meets on his way.

Third: he wants no "sympathetic" heart, but servants, tools; in his intercourse with men he is always intent on making something out of them...
There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame, his own justice that is beyond appeal.

chaz wyman wrote:

thedoc wrote:Girls should know how to play 3 things, Golf, Tennis, and Dumb. - ?

What a Welsh arse-wipe!

Lynn wrote:

thedoc wrote:Girls should know how to play 3 things, Golf, Tennis, and Dumb. - ?

Bob Hope?