A Wes Anderson movie🍻

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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شُغِلَ مَنِ الجنّةُ والنارُ أمامَه! ساعٍ سريعٌ نجا، وطالِبٌ بطيءٌ رجا، ومُقَصِّرٌ في النارِ هَوَى. اليَمينُ والشِّمالُ مَضَلَّة¹ والطريقُ الوسطى هي الجادّة²

¹المَضَلّة: طريق الضَّلال، الضياع والهلاك.
²الجادّة: الطريق الصحيح، المستقيم.

— علي بن أبي طالب (ع)

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كلُّ من جعلَ سعادته وهناءه في يد غيرِه أو في يد الظروف والأشياء الخارجية فهو عبدٌ ولو كان يرتدي الأُرجوان الملَكي.

- المحادثات، إبكتيتوس

Pyrrhonism was a philosophy in ancient Greece that advocated "suspension of judgement" as a way of reaching perfect bliss «ataraxia». In short, if you suspend your judgement (dogma) about anything and everything, you'll reach serenity and calmness.

The founder of this philosophy, Pyrrho, travelled with Alexander the great to India and stayed there for more than a year. There, he met with Indian philosophers (gymnosophists) and Persian priests (Magi). A lot of his ideas have an interesting resemblance with Buddhist ideas, like "the three marks of existence."

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هاي جانت فلسفة باليونان القديمة، فكرتها هي أنّ الواحد "يعلّق" أحكامه على أي شي بحيث لا يحكم لصالح أي قضية ولا ضدها. بهاي الطريقة فالعقل يوصل لمرحلة الـ ataraxia أو الهدوء والسكينة.

وحدة من طرقهم الغريبة، والمثيرة للإهتمام الصراحة، هي أنّهم لما يتناقشون حول قضية معينة رح يقدّمون حجّة لصالح هاي القضية، ثُمّ حجّة ضد هاي القضية، وبهذا "يعلّقون حكمهم" تجاه القضية وما ياخذون أي موقف تجاهها.

Can you imagine the rhetorical and logical dexterity these guys have? They can present any argument for/against anything.

Good luck arguing with them

There is much envy in every act of condemnation.

— Cioran, I think...

Nothing in the world is perfect . . . But we remain in this ‘imperfect’ world, because even so we can use it for our self-enjoyment.

— The Ego and Its Own, by Max Stirner

Most of us would disagree with the premise that technological progress is a plain disaster, but actually, many well-respected philosophers and social theorists have defended similar views.
What singles out Kaczynski, [some] would claim, is that he pushed this radically pessimistic viewpoint to its logical consequences and acted accordingly. As one of his biographers put it: “Kaczynski, in short, had become a cold-blooded killer not despite of his intellect, but because of it.”

— The Enigma of Reason