Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson
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I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
Dolly Parton
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As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one’s life or one’s work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.
Leonard Cohen
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon
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I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, ‘Dang, she looks good for her age!’
Dolly Parton
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
David Bowie
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers
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