Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.
Euripides
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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
Zadie Smith
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
Dalai Lama
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You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Pope John Paul II
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What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.
Earl Nightingale
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Ernest Hemingway
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I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.
Rodney Dangerfield
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
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