Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu
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I’ll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.
David Bowie
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Epictetus
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