Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James
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I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.
Dolly Parton
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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Swami Vivekananda
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Zedong
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The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
Marcel Proust
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch
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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
C. S. Lewis
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The great hope of society is in individual character.
William Ellery Channing
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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud
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