Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Michelangelo
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
Eckhart Tolle
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When ‘Paul’s Boutique’ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.
Eminem
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
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Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett
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