Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
Deepak Chopra
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The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
Jimi Hendrix
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Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
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I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Mike Tyson
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The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand
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