Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A song is anything that can walk by itself.
Bob Dylan
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Walt Whitman
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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway
Got any book recommendations?