Remember a while back when I tired to explain the meaning of everything – phew, well I thought I’d get some professional help in by signing up to a 10 week philosophy course. Stretch my philosophical muscles. I know two quotes about philosophy or do I mean two philosophy quotes (stop stop let’s not get into semantics), to insert into conversations to try and be impressive.
A life unexamined is not worth living, Socrates
And
I would wish failure upon my best friend – Nietcher.
Alright, so I may be paraphrasing/have the philosopher wrong/and the last quote isn’t really impressive more, just a bit mean. My point is – since reading Sophie’s world aged 17 – I haven’t really got beyond the arm chair.
Brill – was really looking forward to it (my course) until my friend who did a philosophy MA, told me that it’s a front for a religious cult. Wowza – how wrong can a girl be?
In the final class they teach you:
“the notion that women should dress in long, flowing dresses, in order to remind men of the true nature of femininity”
Imagine if I had gone along, unsuspecting, but got somehow converted. Goodbye Laundry, hello home baking, doilies and baskets. Nightmare.
What the biggest scam you have ever fallen for?
I’m not going to tell you about when I sign up for a member’s club student scam with deals on jeans and nightclubs after winning a “cruise”.
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9 Responses to “Con on”
Posted: Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:54 am
My friends at university did Philosophy (I stuck to history of art) and they hated it when people quoted Nietzsche, also he is really annoying so instead I would recommend quoting Sartre – much more impressive (by that I mean pretentious) and everyone likes a bit of existentialism.
Ben
Posted: Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Ok - give me a quote so I can cheat and look impressive
Posted: Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:59 am
‘Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.’ Not his best quote but when you work in an office everyday – very true.
Posted: Sep 25th, 2007 at 10:00 am
OH I LOVE THAT ONE - i put it on a post it note above our clock in our student house. It’s just so true! I think I thought it was Oscar Wilde though, wrong again.
Posted: Sep 25th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Unlucky Rachel. Never trust philosophers, we only ever come in 2 sorts. Those who try and convert you to some bizarre cause, and those who use it to sleep with women by confusing them. We’re all dangerous.
Posted: Sep 25th, 2007 at 10:51 am
oh and if you’re looking for quotes to sound pretentious and clever, how about “to exist is to be perceived”. suitably vain.
Posted: Sep 25th, 2007 at 10:56 am
‘There is no purpose in existence; it is in the sense that life has no meaning derived from outside humanity, but only the meaning that we ourselves give it’ there you go – sort of the essence of existentialism. A more grown up quote to put above your clock in your grown up house! I sometimes have day dreams in which I wish I had lived in Paris in the 1950’s…but there would not have been the Laundry – which is a shame…on the plus side I could have hung out with Picasso. Oh well.
Posted: Sep 25th, 2007 at 11:58 am
I’ve always been a sucker for bad philosophy jokes, e.g. “How many Marxists does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. The lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.”
Or the particularly awful: Descartes walks into a café and sits down ready to order. A waiter comes up to him and asks, “Do you need a menu?” Descartes replies, “I think not,” and he disappears.
And in a similar ven: “Did you hear that George Berkeley died? His girlfriend stopped seeing him.”
Posted: Jul 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
biggest scam i have fallen for, bought a credit repair kit to fix my credit, they continued to charge my card 4 times after i told them to stop, i disputed the fees with Visa, won, and then they reported it as a delinquent account on my credit report, lol.