Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I’m not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.
Demetri Martin
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia
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Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Joel Osteen
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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
Alan Watts
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I’m living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It’s impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You’re injected directly into the blood of the places in which you’re living and what’s going on there.
Arundhati Roy
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We are not anti-white. But we don’t have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already… he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
Malcolm X
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God will bring you assistants and the people you will help sooner or later.
Ibn Arabi
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily Dickinson
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