Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The simplest things are often the truest.
Richard Bach
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert
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The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley
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Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates.
Pete Buttigieg
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If you’re a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you’re not going to be a good scientist.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I’m probably the most honest person you’ll ever meet – to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I’m sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven’t retained that information.
Ellen DeGeneres
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One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
Taylor Swift
Got any book recommendations?