Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato
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Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.
Henri Nouwen
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson
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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
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We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.
Pope Francis
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