Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
George Santayana
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People do fun and interesting things because they’re fun and interesting.
Jimmy Wales
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud
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I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.
Aretha Franklin
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You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
Arundhati Roy
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They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.
Gordon Ramsay
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Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.
Kevin Gates
Got any book recommendations?