Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nothing can come of nothing.
William Shakespeare
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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Virginia Woolf
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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Confucius
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The decision to serve needs to be independent of your politics.
Pete Buttigieg
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I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Huey Newton
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How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
Henry David Thoreau
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
George Santayana
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin
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If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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