Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Paulo Coelho
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
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Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.
Maya Angelou
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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
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God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
Joel Osteen
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