Post your favorite philosophical quotes.

Epic

"Religion is a scam because God can't be real because it is opposit if what laws of physics say and I will happy to say otherwise if I see proof but I don't see it the world is based on proof it's the only thing that advances us and we can colonize planets if Christians go away we will have new medicines and cure cancer if weed is legal

>In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of 'world history' - yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
>One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened. For this intellect has no further mission that would lead beyond human life. It is human, rather, and only its owner and producer gives it such importance, as if the world pivoted around it. But if we could communicate with the mosquito, then we would learn that he floats through the air with the same self-importance, feeling within itself the flying center of the world. There is nothing in nature so despicable or insignificant that it cannot immediately be blown up like a bag by a slight breath of this power of knowledge; and just as every porter wants an admirer, the proudest human being, the philosopher, thinks that he sees on the eyes of the universe telescopically focused from all sides on his actions and thoughts.

>>885883
Is that a Marcus Aurelius quote?

>>885943
It was Vladimir Lenin.

>>885954
Thanks famalam. I was trying to source it for a History paper I'm writing but I couldn't find it anywhere