The Following Are Quotes Offered by Students Through the Years As an Introduction to This Year

Philosophy

The following are quotes offered by students through the years as an introduction to this year…

2004 Student Offerings:

Unless some things are certain, it is held, nothing can be even probable. AJ Ayer

I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. Immanuel Kant

God is dead. Nietszche

Consciousness is a disease. Miguel de Unamuno

Happiness is only achieved when you’ve experienced pain. Mike Santoro

One ought not, to talk or act as if he were asleep. Heraclitus

To speak much is one thing, to speak well is another. Sophocles

Know thyself. Socrates

To know what you do not know is best. To pretend to know what you do not know is a disease. Lao-tzu

Once a great man, always a great man. Adam Shami

You cannot step into the same river twice. Heraclitus - many

The wise know their limitations the foolish do not. Benjamin Hoff

Events do not just happen but arrive by opportunity. Marcus Aurelius

Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots grow down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Robert Fulghum

Life is a game full of surprises, games to play and challenges to overcome. Marc Crane

Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten. Robert Fulghum

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. George Harrison

The older you do get, the more rules they are gonna try and make you follow, you just gotta keep living man. L-I-V-I-N. Dazed and Confused

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Janis Joplin - many

And I would slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath I’d apologize for bleeding on your shirt. Taking Back Sunday

See yourself in the light you truly are, not in the light that others put you in. Michelle Benitez

All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle

Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle

Assume the virtue even if you have it not, for use almost can change the stamp of nature. Shakespeare

Man is the measure of all things. Protagoras

Each individual is his own center, and the world centers in him. Kierkegaard

The most important thing that we can learn to do today is thing for ourselves. Malcolm X

I think there for I am. Descartes

Happiness is a birthright and it brings pleasure so seek pleasure not pain. John Stewart Mill

Believing in self will result in happiness. William James

Happiness is the result of living a fully functioning life. Plato

When one lets go of the need to be perfect, you begin to have the experience of perfect imperfection.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-spent brings happy death.

Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

To thy own self be true.

Life is short do what makes you happy. Jordan Dalzell

It is precisely knowing its limits that philosophy consists. Immanuel Kant

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is more perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy. Thomas Aquinas

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Sophocles

You can’t fight existence. Angelina Salerno
No one can make you feel inferior except yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt.

Just because I can doesn’t mean I will. Brandon Longstreth

You come on this plant with a crayon. Waking Life

To manifest society should be based on trust, freedom, justice, and goodness as opposed to war, dominance, and having that imperialistic idea which keeps the world from supporting or growing as a whole. Ashley Longstreth

Just let everything go. Ashley Longstreth

With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails. Shinichi Kudo

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle

Do not value either your children or your life or anything else more than goodness. Socrates

Sorrow is merely a state of mind and may not be warranted by the circumstance. Hence whether you feel sad over something is all in the mind. Lie zi

Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. Oscar Wilde

Religions are great fairytales of the science. George Santayana

Give your next decision thought for it will ultimately help you find out who you are. Eric Falco

Never give in, never be taken out, fight to the finish and live your life. Anjali Kanwar

No one can deliberately will evil that fully recognizes it as evil. Thomas Aquinas

Life can be much more simpler than we make it. Matt McGroarty

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie. AA Milne

You gotta do what you gotta do to move through. Brian Fitzpatrick

When you know and respect your inner nature you know where you belong. Benjamin Hoff

In order to take control of our lives and accomplish something of lasting value, sooner or later we need to learn to believe. Benjamin Hoff

Philosophy is life.

If all else fails try the Pooh Way. Benjamin Hoff - many

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one. Spock

You gotta know when to hold them, when to fold them and when to walk away and when to run. Kenny Rogers

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

2005 Student Offerings

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. Frank Cab and Gio Luddeni

Ha Kuna Matada – Frank Cab

Your mind is like a glass bottle at sea. Put more weight in it than it can displace and it will sink. Find another empty bottle to share the weight. Frank Cab

The wise are children who know. Benjamin Hoff – Marco Salinas

If you truly believe in what you are doing then you can do no wrong. Marco Salinas

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? Berekely – D.Devery

The wisest is he who knows he does not know. Devery

There is nothing in the natural world that didn’t first exist in the world of ideas. Plato – Devery

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace. Spinoza - Devery and Luddeni

To make something of yourself you must first know where to start. – Devery

There are two powers in this world, the power of the sword and the power of the mind. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the mind. Napolean – Luddeni

What I understand by Philosopher: a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. Nietzsche – Luddeni

Better to be on a runaway horse than to be a women who does not reflect. Theano of Crotona – Luddeni

There are days when Spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count. Benjamin Hoff – Maureen Altobelli

Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful. Annette Funicello – Altobelli

Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle – Altobelli, Valerio

To speak much is one thing. To speak well is another. Sophocles – Altobelli

Do not value either your children or your life or anything more than goodness. Socrates – Kathy Valerio

Life is only good when you are told otherwise. Valerio

They say that dreams are real as long as they last, couldn’t they say the same about life? Waking Life – Kayla Camara

Not twice this day. Inch time foot gem. Zen Koan – Kayla

A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly. Pooh – Kayla

A day without laughter is a day wasted. Charlie Chaplin – Kayla

Upon us all, a little rain must fall. Led Zeppelin – Kayla

All important thins in life begin with the letter “F”, food, friends and filosophy. Kayla

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. Richard Bach – Taylor Popeson

The eyes of a man are set in his forehead, not his hindhead; man hopes, genius creates. Emerson – Popeson

There are two kinds of sufferers in life: those who suffer from a lack of life and those who suffer from an overabundance of life. Waking Life – Popeson

It’s better to be a hammer than an avil. Popeson

It’s all about integrity. Dad Popeson

Music is the sounds between the notes, the pauses between the lyrics. Hear the music before the song is over. Popeson

For every dark there is light. Dave Mosqueda

Be the charge you wish to be in the world. Ghandi – Crystal Robinson

All I know is I know nothing. Crystal Robinson

2006 Student Offerings

“At some point, something must have come from nothing.” Pre-Socratics - Rebecca Portnoy

“They say dreams are only real as long as they last – couldn’t you say the say thing about life?”

Waking Life – R. Portnoy

“There’s only one instant and it’s right now and it’s eternity.” Waking Life – R. Portnoy

“Anything you do will end up being right for you.” Rebecca Portnoy

Tomorrow is never promised. Jason Buskirk

Nothing is something. J. Buskirk

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, and Bacon have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. Emerson – J. Buskirk

Don’t look so hard for that happy ending… you may miss the best part of the story. J. Buskirk

Never back down from life because life will never back down from you. J. Buskirk

No ideas, but in things. William Carlos Williams – Reid Schwartz

It is not what you know but who you know. Reid Schwartz

The religion of one seems madness unto another. Sir Thomas Browne – R. Schwartz

If I had to live my life again I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead – RSchwartz

The power we house is measured by the effect it has on others. Reid Schwartz

This world spreads like cancer as nothing is real. Atomship – Adam Choyce

It means just going along, listening to the things you can’t hear and not bothering. Christopher Robin - Adam Choyce

The wise are not learned the learned are not wise – Tao Te Ching - Adam Choyce

Where more wants all and no less, just change with no real progress. Sneaker Pimps - Adam Choyce

Someday time will come to be awaken. Isao Mizoguchi - Adam Choyce

The world is our own, collectively through thoughs, dreams, hopes, and fears. The world is created in our minds’ theater. Adam Choyce

Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful. Annette Funicello – Priscila Castillo

Upon us all a little rain must fall. Led Zeppelin - Priscila Castillo

If all fails try the Pooh Way – Benjamin Hoff - Priscila Castillo

There is no perfect life or perfect anything, but accepting life as it is will be the closest thing to perfection. Priscila Castillo

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop. Confucius - Victoria Cademartori

And when you try too hard, it doesn’t work. Benjamin Hoff - Victoria Cademartori

Stress free’s the way to be. Victoria Cademartori

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Gabrielle Bozzi

If rules don’t work you change them. Gabrielle Bozzi

A fly can’t bird but a bird can fly. Vincent Almodovar

You cannot depend on your own eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain – V. Almodovar

Who and what we are, are not the same thing. What we are is how we do something, who we are is why. V. Almodovar

No one knowingly does evil. Socrates – Chris Sanborne

Life is constantly changing. Embrace it. Chris Sanborne

By all means marry; if you get a good wife you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one you become a philosopher. Socrates almost – Dean Capsel

The only good is knowledge, the only evil is ignorance. Socrates – Dean Capsel

Sacrifice time now so that you may live easy in the future. Dean Capsel

This mind tires too hard, wears itself out, and ends up weak and sloppy. Such a mind, even of high intelligence is inefficient. Benjamin Hoff - Alex Durante

Sooner or later we need to believe. Benjamin Hoff – Alex Durante

The path of success is paved with the stones of rethought failures. Alex Durante

If you do nothing, nothing will not be done. Benjamin Hoff – Kyle Daily

Knowledge is an illusion. Kyle Daily

Life sucks. If you stop trying to explain why, you can flow with it. Kyle Daily

Dreams can come true if you don’t give up. Victoria Cuevas

Things are as they are. James Cohen

Act on the principle of acting on principle. Kant – James Cohen

The harder you try to forget something the more you think about it. Freud. – James Cohen

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists. Kant – John Hanlon

Philosophy is life. Benjamin Hoff – John Hanlon

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle – John Hanlon

Life is what you make it, so don’t complain about it. John Hanlon

To speak much is one thing, to speak well is another. Benjamin Hoff – Jenna Feldman

There are two sides to every question. Jenna Feldman

One disease long life, no disease short life. Benjamin Hoff – Jenna Feldman

People are easily led away from what is right for them, because people have a brain and a brain can be fooled. Benjamin Hoff – Jenna Feldman

The wise are who they are. They work with what they’ve got and do what they can do. Benjamin Hoff – Jenna Feldman

Trust your instincts. Outside influences can make you doubt your Inner Nature. Jenna Feldman

Nothing is so worthless in education as the accumulation of knowledge in the form of inert facts and the sterile compilation of things known. Henry Adams – Shauna O’Brien

Everything is the same even if it is different. Shauna O’Brien

The enemy of progress is not ignorance, but he illusion of knowledge. Daniel Boorstin – S. O’Brien

Be the change you want to see in the world. Shauna O’Brien

I love mankind, it’s people I can’t stand. Liones – Tom Hiltner

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest the gods. Socrates – Tom Hiltner

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom – Kierkegaard – Tom Hiltner

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. Langston Hughes – Tom Hiltner

Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading. Huanchu Daoren – Tom Hiltner

Life is spelled with more than one “if.” Tom Hiltner

If it is wrong it is probably right. Cary Morowitz

We don’t act on what we understand, but on what we believe. William James – Mike Griffin

2007 Offerings

Dream is destiny – Julia Fassel

Nature does nothing uselessly – Julia Fassel

Everything is constantly changing. Julia Fassel

Nothing is so worthless in education as the accumulation of inert facts and the sterile compilation of things none. – Julia Fassel

Never assume because it makes an ass out of you and me. – Julia Fassel

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. – Julia Fassel

“You can not step in the same river twice” Dan Kissick

“Nothing is so worthless in education as the accumulation of inert facts and the sterile compilations of things known.” Dan Kissick

“Nothing came from nothing” Dan Kissick

“Man is condemned to be free” Dan Kissick

“You can lead a horse to water but you can not make him drink it.” Dan Kissick

1. "The obstacle is the path." Zen Proverb. Lyndsay Curtis

2. "The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." Ayn Rand. . Lyndsay Curtis

3. "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." Henri Louis Bergson. Lyndsay Curtis

4. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." Winston Churchill. Lyndsay Curtis

Own "It is not a question of whether man chooses to be guided by philosophy: he is not equipped to live without it." Ayn Rand. Lyndsay Curtis

1. "Whatever's meant to be, will work out perfectly." -Avril Lavigne Marina Bariss

2. "I'd tell you how it haunts me... cuts through my day and sinks into my dreams." -AFI Marina Bariss

3. "I'm open, you're closed... where I follow, you'll go." -Howie Day Marina Bariss

4. "Are you desperate to find something more? Before your life is over?" -Simple Plan Marina Bariss

5. "I like... where we are... here." –Hellogoodbye Marina Bariss