Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
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Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I’m certainly not a workaholic.
Indira Gandhi
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
William Blake
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert Camus
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
Thomas Sowell
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