Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.
Brad Pitt
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine
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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.
Horace
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The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes
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When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
Maimonides
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Big results require big ambitions.
Heraclitus
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