Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre Lorde
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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Thomas Merton
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.
Elon Musk
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There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
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Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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