Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‘should’ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‘If I do this, what will happen?’ alone.
Richard P. Feynman
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
Malcolm X
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.
William James
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We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.
Stephen Hawking
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope
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