Life advises

[matrixmann]

Famous quotes - who really knows they've been authored by the people they get attributed to?
Who can really say it's that what they meant? That what they thought?
And - who can say if they weren't a bit naive and really that wise?
Who knows at all if they totally personally were that what they get regarded as these days - decades, centuries, even thousands of years after they have lived?

With what certainty do people use them for brightening up their lives?
Are they afraid of something?

Comments

[mai-neh.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I really enjoy quoting from a poet, or classic literature, but I bet a lot of the supposed quotations floating around social media are fake.

I agree it is weird that a statement from some famous person is given great credit, rather than our crediting our personal experience, our personal rational thoughts, etc.

It reminds me of a class in college where the professor asked us, how do we know what we know? What are the authorities we trust for the knowledge we think we have? Knowledge is ... not easy to verify.

[matrixmann]

I kind of feel like there's a lot of potential for manipulation in this segment.
Let's say... People denying their depressed moments because someone else said it's a waste of time, people denying recognitions how bad the world is to humans 'cause someone else said not to focus on one's mind on that, people playing Biedermeier because someone else said the greatest teasure is family and big politics and other more demanding things in the world are no worth the time bothering to interfere as a small cog of the whole clockwork.
Strangely way less people take out quotes which support their worldview if it is a dark one.
Much more do that if they want to tell themselves and the world "everything is okay".
Coincidence? That's why I'm alleging that.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

The thing is that inspirational quotes as well as some stories like some kid gave his money he collected to some other kid who doesn't have money to buy food, so we are supposed to admire and do the same while the system is f#### up and nothing is cute about it, so it is mainly some neoliberal stuff.

[matrixmann]

Said this in the response above, to me it feels like manipulation often enough. Like downplaying things and not calling things what they truly are by the way they're designed or work.
Astoundingly, people also use quotes more in cases where they seemingly need tp prove to themselves that the world is alright and that all's not so hopeless as it seems.
Those who believe in a bad picture of the world, strangely they don't need as many quotes by famous people to support their worldview.
Something that I systematically noticed...

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

I like quotes - I'd made an audio courses of all I could cope through the Internet, I was listening them walking at forest, working on my job - I was never thinking the questions you give about them still they make my mood to flow to the relaxing contemplation of other's wise viewing ways and all around gives new perspective and food for abstract thinking.

[matrixmann]

Hm... I'm getting an idea: What about own quotes? I mean, quoting oneself? Phrases one created by oneself?

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

For me it is not that important who is behind a quote it should be interesting. I’d got to some Internet site where there is a rating for quotes and everybody could leave one or more, so I had copied around hundreds from famous people and not and got a lot of pleasure to listen them after now and then.

[matrixmann]

I only find that barely someone uses a quote by some unknown fella or his neighbor to support his own position - or whatever he has in mind as a purpose. That's why I make "author" a topic in this.

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

If to think about quoting myself... well, my relatives/friends do it constantly as I am quoting them as well, it is absolutely normal but we are not writing them down to the eternity judging...