Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
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All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
John Locke
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran
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To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
Maimonides
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
Bill Gates
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington
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Every day, President Obama sends a beautiful message about how we should treat our women based on how he treats his wife. When people went after his wife during the campaign, he took a stand.
Steve Harvey
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If an athlete plays the guitar, they say, ‘That’s so cool, he can play the guitar.’ But if a guy raps, they say, ‘Please don’t be another rapper,’ only because the rappers are so bad. I promise I’m not anything like that.
Iman Shumpert
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