Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo
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I mean, I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I’m me.
Terry Pratchett
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Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
David Bowie
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.
Noam Chomsky
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
Oscar Wilde
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Michelle Obama
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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor Swift
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I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.
Jane Goodall
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