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Based Philosophers Thread Anonymous 04/26/15 (Sun) 13:35:12 308341 No.13867

Who was the greatest philosopher of all time, and why was it Cicero?

inb4 balding

Anonymous 04/26/15 (Sun) 20:04:32 308341 No.13885

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Cicero

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Cicero

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Cicero

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

Descartes is a close second

Also - Theologians like St. Augustine & Thomas of Aquinas are accepted and encouraged for discussion.

Anonymous 04/27/15 (Mon) 02:39:52 db6d8b No.13908

>>13867

Wrong it was Heidegger you inauthentic being.

DownWithPatriarchy!2lUa6.spiA 04/27/15 (Mon) 11:27:54 4b92b7 No.13920

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>>13867

Nietzche is the quintessential reactionary philosopher.

Anonymous 04/27/15 (Mon) 19:24:54 3c033f No.13956

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>>13867

Pic related

>proposed the benevolent autocrat

>btfo machiavelli before he was even a man

>was one of the few philosophers who actually got to put his own theories to the test

>number one hero of modern reactionaries

>so perfect that the only criticism his enemies could think of was to falsely accuse him of being gay like the children they were

Based Friedrich.

Anonymous 04/27/15 (Mon) 20:46:49 9c920c No.13965

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>>13956

Unrelated to the thread, but what are good biographies of him?

I'll add a good quote on an image to at least contribute to the thread.

Anonymous 04/27/15 (Mon) 21:58:46 3c033f No.13971

>>13965

http://www.amazon.com/Frederick-Great-Nancy-Mitford/dp/1590176235

Anonymous 04/28/15 (Tue) 08:25:05 308341 No.13989

>>13956

Frederich II of Prussia was good and all, but he was more of a Military strategist than a philosopher.

Didn't he watch his best friend get executed by his own dad, when he was a young man?

Anonymous 04/28/15 (Tue) 09:52:58 c4eaff No.13990

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http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/repute.htm

Cicero is fucking based. link related.

Anonymous 04/28/15 (Tue) 12:38:31 9c920c No.14001

>>13971

Thank you, will give it a try

Anonymous 05/04/15 (Mon) 18:54:58 61b8b5 No.14225

>>13965

Not to take away from the basedness that is Marcus Tullius Cicero and all those words, but that's, sadly, a false quote, because Cicero didn't say anything like that, not even in the Catiline Orations.