Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau
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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
Lewis Carroll
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The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
Noam Chomsky
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
William Shakespeare
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
Henry Ford
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato
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I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Audrey Hepburn
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People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur
Got any book recommendations?