Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire
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Pakistanis can’t trust. They’ve seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they’re misguided by people in the name of Islam. They’re told: ‘Malala is not a Muslim, she’s not in purdah, she’s working for America.’
Malala Yousafzai
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
Michel de Montaigne
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If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.
Joyce Meyer
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In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
Eckhart Tolle
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Marcus Aurelius
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I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’
Edgar Allan Poe
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