• Cynical Eye
    30
    I've been thinking about getting a tattoo since I was little.
    And I'd really like to have quotes on my body, speaking my mind, depicting me.
    Anyone willing to share their favourite philosophical quote(s)?
    I personally really like "Life Imitates Art" :D

    Feel free to comment and let the ideas collide!
  • Janus
    15.4k
    How about "What was the point of getting this stoopid tattoo"?
  • Shawn
    12.6k
    It is what it is.
  • Cynical Eye
    30
    cause this is what I love, and actually that could be a fun tattoo on me.
  • John Days
    146
    It is what it is.Posty McPostface

    *eye roll*
  • John Days
    146
    "You probably think this tattoo is about you, don't you, don't you..."
  • mcdoodle
    1.1k
    I ink, therefore I am.
  • PeterPants
    82
    You want quotes that capture you? I don't know you..
    Nonetheless ill give some I like.


    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov

    "people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
    ― Isaac Asimov

    “Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens

    “There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens

    “Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.”
    ― Sam Harris


    What kind of things are important to you?
  • unenlightened
    8.7k
    It does exactly what it says on the skin.
  • Cavacava
    2.4k
    So then "The Real Thing" written in your choice of colored Coke a Cola script
  • Wosret
    3.4k
    By reading this you forfeit your soul to me.
  • BC
    13.1k
    "Give me an idea... I mean it literally" - great quote. A really difficult question will be whether to use 5 dots (seems excessive) or 3 (the current style) for the ellipsis following the word "idea". Be sure to decide what you want, because 5 dots could become really annoying.
  • Nils Loc
    1.3k
    "There is no inktellectual exercise that is not ultimately useless."

    This is a variant of a Borges quote shelved somewhere in his universal library.

    I have a recurrent day dream about medical students reading tattooed instructions on how to fashion a magical fetish from my bones, something like the One Ring or a Horcrux by which my imaginary soul continues to wreak its ineffectuality and nonsense in the world.

    “Ancient Spirits of Evil, transform this decayed form to Mumm-ra, the ever-living!”
    ~Mumra
  • Sir2u
    3.2k
    Get an arrow and "this way up" on your ass.
  • Cynical Eye
    30
    wow nice observation, I didn't even pay attention on that lol haha and yeah I got what you mean.
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