Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
Elon Musk
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I’ll probably always be interested in this planet – it’s my favorite.
Carl Sagan
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I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.
Paulo Coelho
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.
Pope Francis
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Most of what I wear, I select myself. You can’t please everybody, and as long as I’m comfortable with what I wear, I think that’s what’s important.
Aretha Franklin
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Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
John Keats
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