Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
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I’m not always a smiley kind of guy.
Bernie Sanders
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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
Roger Daltrey
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Thomas Sowell
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I think I’ve really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I’ve put it behind me for the time being.
J. K. Rowling
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
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In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
Deepak Chopra
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell
Got any book recommendations?