Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James Baldwin
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer
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I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
Dolly Parton
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Benjamin Franklin
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we’ll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.
Marianne Williamson
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If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often.
Leonard Cohen
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A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
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