Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
Noam Chomsky
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
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Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu
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If no one ever broke the rules, then we’d never advance.
Simon Sinek
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What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they’re constantly repairing it. It’s as if they live in both elements.
Audre Lorde
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia Woolf
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I never thought I’d live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.
Mike Pence
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