Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
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There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
Aretha Franklin
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil Gibran
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Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
Carl Sagan
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Yeah I’m thirty-six, but on the show I’m thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
Ellen DeGeneres
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I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It’s fun to see what they’ll say it is.
Erykah Badu
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
John D. Rockefeller
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