Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
Elizabeth I
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Khalil Gibran
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You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.
Virginia Woolf
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When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Confucius
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In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It’s called ‘Scalia/Ginsburg.’ The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
Charles Darwin
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In any society, fanatics who hate don’t hate only me – they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
Elie Wiesel
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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