Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.
Arundhati Roy
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Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
Virgil
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
George Eliot
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When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.
Harry S Truman
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Douglas Adams
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Heraclitus
Got any book recommendations?