Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
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Danger is sauce for prayers.
Benjamin Franklin
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
Margaret Thatcher
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
Carl Jung
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Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
Laurence J. Peter
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The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
Noam Chomsky
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Even if you flippin’ fries at McDonald’s, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
Oprah Winfrey
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One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf
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