Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’m baffled all the time. We don’t know what’s driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
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You can’t understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we’re still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.
Pete Buttigieg
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Freedom without limits is just a word.
Terry Pratchett
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma Bombeck
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To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.
Simon Sinek
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Albert Schweitzer
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