Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar Wilde
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes
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The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
Steven Wright
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Calvin Coolidge
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You can’t train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they’re clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it – but that’s true for any field.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
Eckhart Tolle
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
James Baldwin
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Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. ‘Know thyself’ is not a narcissistic pursuit.
Marianne Williamson
Got any book recommendations?