Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
T. S. Eliot
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
Jane Goodall
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Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they’re the center of everything ends up shrinking.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon
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A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
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Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.
Jim Morrison
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