Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
John Muir
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron
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My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‘You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.’
Stephen Covey
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, ‘We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.’
Henry Rollins
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
Elon Musk
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