Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran
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I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
Bill Gates
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
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Even when you’re 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you’re not.
Ron Howard
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We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.
Donald Trump
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Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Henry Ford
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At death, you’re going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world… it’s what’s inside that counts.
George Harrison
Got any book recommendations?