Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Error is discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
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My high school in South Bend had nearly a thousand students. Statistically, that means that several dozen were gay or lesbian. Yet, when I graduated in 2000, I had yet to encounter a single openly LGBT student there.
Pete Buttigieg
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Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
Joel Osteen
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan
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Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn’t be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn’t be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.
Arundhati Roy
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
Steven Wright
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
Orson Welles
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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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