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.

[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.

[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.