Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.
David Bowie
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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. Mencken
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot
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There’s also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
Larry David
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One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company’s obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain
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Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.
Jean Piaget
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Thomas Carlyle
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