Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
Mary Oliver
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Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
Zadie Smith
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Joseph Stalin
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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.
Leonard Cohen
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso
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I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.
Cardi B
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The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
Virgil
Got any book recommendations?