Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I’m the only one moving.
Steven Wright
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Francis Bacon
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there’s some truth to that.
Tom Wolfe
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I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.
Brene Brown
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I was looking online; many singers have sung songs for the elections, but I am not doing anything like that.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
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People are pursuing happiness, but they’re pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don’t know that. They’ve got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it’s based on what they see on television.
Rush Limbaugh
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
Michel de Montaigne
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