Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
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Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.
Billie Eilish
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop
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Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill
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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Anthony Burgess
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis
Got any book recommendations?