Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
Charlie Chaplin
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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You have to be the one promoting yourself. If you don’t think that you’re worthy, you’re never going to make it.
Misty Copeland
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
Henry David Thoreau
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I’m glad Phil Jackson got the rings for Chicago. You traded me away from New York, cool. It’s all business; it’s all love, whatever. But I’m a grownup now. You not my hero no more.
Iman Shumpert
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud
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