Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that a woman has is that a man has to accept her the way she is. No, we don’t. I don’t know who told you that. We like the bright and shiny. If you stop wearing the makeup, stop putting on nail polish, stop wearing high heels, you’ll lose us.
Steve Harvey
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King
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It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Carl Jung
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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.
Steven Wright
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Michel de Montaigne
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl Jung
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There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.
Taylor Swift
Got any book recommendations?