Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.
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From the esplanade wall at Oenoanda, now in Turkey, as recorded by Diogenes of OenoandaEpicurus
Away with those perfumes that do me harm!
I hate them, nurse, and would you have me feel
Their drunken vapors make my senses reel?Stephane Mallarme
The recognition of the light of reality within the darkness of abstraction is a contradiction – both the affirmation and the negation of the real at one and the same time. The new philosophy, which thinks the concrete not in an abstract but a concrete way, which acknowledges the real in its reality – that is, in a way corresponding to the being of the real as true, which elevates it into the principle and object of philosophy – is consequently the truth of the Hegelian philosophy, indeed of modern philosophy as a whole.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.
William Saroyan
Question:The government said eating genetically modified food(GM food) would not cause any harm, at the same time imposing strict ban of GM food inside Expo area, just to prevent those innocent foreigner's consumption by mistake, is this a kind of prejudice against ourselves?
Han Han
"The traditional approach has tended to obscure the nature of the choice that has to be made. The question is commonly thought of as one in which A inflicts harm on B and what has to be decided is: how should we restrain A? But this is wrong. We are dealing with a problem of a reciprocal nature. To avoid the harm to B would inflict harm on A. The real question that has to be decided is: should A be allowed to harm B or should B be allowed to harm A?"
Ronald Coase
Epicurus
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