Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light ‘amid the encircling gloom.’
Mahatma Gandhi
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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
Blaise Pascal
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I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.
John Lewis
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft
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When at last we are sure, You’ve been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
Dr. Seuss
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
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So many people are on television that don’t know me, and they’re like experts on me.
Donald Trump
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
D. H. Lawrence
Got any book recommendations?