Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
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I was born in a suit.
Leonard Cohen
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine
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A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. Peter
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When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents’ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‘Amazing Stories,’ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.
Ray Bradbury
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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Confucius
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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’
William Arthur Ward
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You can’t come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That’s why you’ll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.
Alice Walker
Got any book recommendations?