Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot
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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill Gates
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan Watts
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
Bob Dylan
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Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
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You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don’t mind if you’re not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you’ll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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