Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso
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The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve Jobs
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience’s attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
Henry Rollins
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Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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My first experience with gymnastics was when I was in daycare. We took a field trip to a gym, and I was hooked.
Simone Biles
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Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.
Dolly Parton
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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