Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin
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The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
William Shakespeare
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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Alexander the Great
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The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.
Pete Buttigieg
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
James Baldwin
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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
Marcel Proust
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As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world.
Nina Simone
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See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.
Michelle Obama
Got any book recommendations?