Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I am not a televangelist.
Billy Graham
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.
Denis Waitley
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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
Bill Gates
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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
Maria Montessori
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If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right?
Henry Rollins
Got any book recommendations?