Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.
H. P. Lovecraft
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
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You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
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I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
Billie Eilish
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I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
Alexander McQueen
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There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.
Eminem
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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas
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