History of Lebowskian Philosophy

[Yeah...]

For it is the same thing to think and to be. DONNIE (OR PARMENIDES OF ELEA)


Shut up, Donnie! The wise man thinks beforehand, not afterwards. WALTER (OR EPICHARMUS OF SYRACUSE)


The way up and down is one and the same. DONNIE (OR HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS)


I'm telling you, Donnie, shut, the fuck, up! WALTER


Men thinking new thoughts each day. DONNIE (OR DEMOCRITUS OF ABDERA)


Donnie! WALTER


Wretch, be not mindful of what is soft, lest you have what is hard! THE BIG LEBOWSKI TO THE DUDE (OR EPICHARMUS OF SYRACUSE)


Those who deny knowledge are like vegetables. They don't perceive reality. ARISTOTLE


I believe it because it's absurd. TERTULLIAN, EARLY CHURCH FATHER


The fatigue of thinking becomes everyday more painful to me. I love to dream, allowing my mind to wander. This idle and contemplative life becomes to me daily more delicious. To be as irresponsible as I please. Finally to give myself up unconstrainedly to my fantasies. ROUSSEAU


I have denied knowledge, in order to make room for faith. KANT


Trust your emotions or your intuitions or whatever you like to call them. Never trust your knowledge. HITLER


I thank my Maker for having made me without what they call a "sense of objectivity." GOEBBELS


If you're a subjectivist, it's really easy. The answer to any question is, "I don't know." LEONARD PEIKOFF


Wherever you go, there you are. THE PIG TENDER, IN "MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME"   


We've been trying to get high without having to pay. MARIANNE FAITHFULL


Definitely maybe. JEFF BECK


Atlas Shrugged. AYN RAND


Everything exists. Everything exists equally. Everything is limited. Know your limits, especially in waterfront bars. THE WIZARD

[Yeah...]

MORE DUDE WISDOM!

This is a complicated case, Maude. A lot of ins, a lot of outs, a lot of what-have-yous, a lot of strands to keep in my head, man. Lot of strands in old Duder's head. THE DUDE

Reason becomes involved in darkness and contradictions 
MANNY KANT

Oh, my mind is messed up, going round and round.
JIMI HENDRIX

D'oh!
HOMER SIMPSON
                                                                                 
Well, yeah!
THE  DUDE                                                                         

If you're a subjectivist, it's really easy. The answer to any question is, "I don't know."
OBJECTIVIST PHILOSOPHER LEONARD PEIKOFF

Wherever you go, there you are.
PIG TENDER, MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME

Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person  and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way--that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. WALTER (OR ARISTOTLE)

A rifle or a machine gun that does not fire is about as much use as a pecker to the Pope. 
WALTER (OR GEN. GEORGE PATTON)

The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on whom have, I any influence, or who have any influence on me? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, inviron'd with the deepest darkness, and utterly depriv'd of the use of every member and faculty.
EMPIRICIST PHILOSOPHER DAVID HUME
 
Shine on, you crazy diamond.  PINK FLOYD

And God said, "Let there be a nudist camp."  And there was a nudist camp.

If you fail in America, you still get a beer.

[ZenDudeist]

Huh, well... that was interesting man.

[groovypucks]

Yeah... dude... loved those. . . let there be a nudist camp...

[meekon5]

Small point of order the accepted nomenclature is Dudeist, not Lebowskian, philosophy.

Maybe I'm not getting the point.

But what's the point?

[DigitalBuddha]

Small point of order the accepted nomenclature is Dudeist, not Lebowskian, philosophy.

Maybe I'm not getting the point.

But what's the point?

The point is relaxed slacking. IMHO ...very Dudeist.

[Hominid]

VAGINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DigitalBuddha]

VAGINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuckin' eh!!

[groovypucks]

VAGINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have two favorite mid night snacks... and thats one of them.

[groovypucks]

Small point of order the accepted nomenclature is Dudeist, not Lebowskian, philosophy.

Tu Shea...