Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Thomas Merton
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
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People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
Eckhart Tolle
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As far as I’m concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
Zadie Smith
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I’ll never be a TV writer.
Tom Segura
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Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
Josephine Baker
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As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!
Brene Brown
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What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
David Bowie
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I hate being up onstage with a microphone.
Virgil Abloh
Got any book recommendations?