Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most women I know are priestesses and healers… We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
Marianne Williamson
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’
Rudyard Kipling
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Margaret Thatcher
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Some sarcasm is best told simply.
Kevin Hart
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison
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Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It’s just a cycle.
Mike Tyson
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
Got any book recommendations?