Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
Malcolm X
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Thomas Aquinas
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It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve Jobs
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My mother’s idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive – the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.
Robin Williams
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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
Maria Montessori
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Life’s enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
Lord Byron
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I don’t take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
Larry David
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
George Santayana
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All my adult life people have been helping me.
Stephen Hawking
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