Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel de Montaigne
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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
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We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Bill Gates
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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut
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No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
B. F. Skinner
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There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don’t think it’s a bad thing necessarily, but things change – nothing stays the same. If you can stay true to yourself, you’re always going to be legendary.
Lil Uzi Vert
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
Zadie Smith
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