Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‘Oh my God, what a blessing.’ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
Paulo Coelho
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Voltaire
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I don’t tell people, ‘You’re okay the way that you are.’ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‘You’re way less than you could be.’
Jordan Peterson
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund Freud
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You are human, you will make mistakes, and it’s one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain., The Magic
Rhonda Byrne
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
Dalai Lama
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