Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter Scott
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A lot of people – a lot – have urged me to seek political office. All kinds of different jobs. Everybody has got a different idea for me, except all roads lead through my wife.
Bob Iger
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George Eliot
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My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the ‘Pata Pata’ album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.
Henry Rollins
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With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
Henry Rollins
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It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.
Jordan Peterson
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
William James
Got any book recommendations?