Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
George Santayana
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.
Jordan Peterson
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
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I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.
Joyce Meyer
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow
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The environment is everything that isn’t me.
Albert Einstein
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin
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Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 – that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.
Mae Jemison
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