Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I read the ‘Old Testament’ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‘The Origin Of Species’, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
Terry Pratchett
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The intention to live as long as possible isn’t one of the mind’s best intentions, because quantity isn’t the same as quality.
Deepak Chopra
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The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
Jordan Peterson
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.
Taylor Swift
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Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
Henri Nouwen
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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.
Noam Chomsky
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