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Come up with your own philosophical ideas and post in soundbites here...like "everything is ultimately futile"...

Mine is "life is the longest time you will know"...it works well for me as a guiding principle.

― jel, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Life is short, but long in the living". I actually stole that, but I wanted to post it anyh00.

― Kodanshi, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People say to me Chris! Chris! Life is so short! No, life is looong. Especially if you make bad decisions.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And I stole this - "There is hell in hello, but none in goodbye".

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I stole mine, too. "It's better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done." Also, "One must allow other people to be right... it consoles them for not being anything else." And my new favourite is "Care about how people feel, but don't give a rats ass what they *think*." (Which I think I actually might have made up myself and not plagiarised at all. Weex!)

― Kate the Saint, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you're going to go the whole hog, go the half hog first.

The taller the tree, the thinner the fruit.

etc etc.

― Tom, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Small man may have small penis, but he can still fuck your wife.

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Life is a blimp in a Britney Spears remix by DJ Assault. There is no reason. Just take the ride . Have fun with the highs and squint your eyes when there's a low.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Two of my dad's favourites:
"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana",
"You can take a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead"

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"How many beans make five? How long is a piece of string?" Two of my Dad's faves (he is v. old)

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My grandfather - who has just left for hospital this afternoon - likes to say "Even a one legged man can walk." Or "Ca roule comme une boule carré."

― nathalie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My father has a tendency to say "that's life" to everything. Really, Dad? I couldn't have guessed.

I am always telling people to chill.

― Lyra, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always liked to steal the Saul Bellow one "the problem with progressive views is not the establishment, but the limitless dullness of those who pursue them". Then theres Groucho Marx "I seldom forget a face but in your case I'll make an exception". My own personal philosophy I keep putting on people would run something like "Do whatever you want to do, as much as possible regardless of consequences, god knows enough people will try and stop you."

― Ronan, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a slug in mucus will win you few friends

― mark s, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Life sucks, but consider the alternative.

― j.lu, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Que sera, sera...

― suzy, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Life is too short and too busy to waste doing favors for asshole ex- boyfriends. That's my own personal one.

― Ally, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"To philosophise is to learn how to die" - I read it in Montaigne but he nicked it off someone.

― Tom, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I made up a philosophy like Ronans, 'enough people will try to stop you anyway', and was finding it very satisfying, but I told it to my friend and he said it was terrifying. What about philosophies that are supposed to be reassuring but make me depressed like 'live every day as your last' (great). The only philosophy that I can ever remember actually having a utility for me was this:

we were in the toilets in high school smoking but not hiding, just openly smoking, and a teacher walked in and caught us. We got taken straight to the principals office and my friend only had time to whisper to me before we were sent in 'Just pretend you're Madonna.' Anyway we both did by silent agreement and we convinced the principal and the teacher that we weren't smoking - just by sheer confidence and insistence! So that is the only philosophy that worked, and I've never tried it again due to repulsion.

― maryann, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A trouble shared is a trouble squared.

Never ever bloody anything ever ((c) Mayall, Edmondson 1987).

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In any sufficently difficult exam, statements can be formulated which can neither be proved nor disproved within the exam period, unless possibly the exam questions are inconsistent.

I got no marks for that answer to a simple linear algebra question I could remeber how to do. Thanks for nothing Gödel.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Be excellent to one another. Beats the hell out of all that red pill/ blue pill crap, surely.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And party on, dudes.

― Ally, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it is easier to ask an apology then promission

― anthony, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)