Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What’s worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.
Pete Buttigieg
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily Dickinson
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.
Jordan Peterson
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In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.
Marianne Williamson
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I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
Viktor E. Frankl
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
George Bernard Shaw
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
Fidel Castro
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken
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