Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein
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It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.
Jordan Peterson
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The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.
Jordan Peterson
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Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert
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We shouldn’t be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That’s just wrong.
Elizabeth Warren
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
Brian Tracy
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I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
Kanye West
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.
Marilyn Monroe
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Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
John Muir
Got any book recommendations?