Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas Carlyle
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When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for ‘The Simpsons’ who’d briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
Zadie Smith
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When I make a live-action movie, it’s a very physical process. It’s like running a marathon.
Zack Snyder
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Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.
Jimi Hendrix
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I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.
Eminem
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.
Elon Musk
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John Keats
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Women hold up half the sky.
Mao Zedong
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