Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
Elie Wiesel
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Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Viktor E. Frankl
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
Hedy Lamarr
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Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.
Marianne Williamson
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
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