Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
C. S. Lewis
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There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.
Dolly Parton
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There are many things that I don’t understand.
Billy Graham
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From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Soren Kierkegaard
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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Paulo Coelho
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn’t got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
D. H. Lawrence
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