Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Indira Gandhi
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
Charles Bukowski
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Saint Augustine
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