Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Eckhart Tolle
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I have advice for people – period – who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it’s easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you – you’ll get there.
Erykah Badu
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No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf
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