Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
Noam Chomsky
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Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.
Diogenes
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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus
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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Denis Waitley
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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
Maria Montessori
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The ‘soul’ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
Eckhart Tolle
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The audience has always been my best director.
Eartha Kitt
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Francis of Assisi
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