Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
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Rights are not a matter of numbers – and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn Rand
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I will be dictated to by nobody. I’m the man. And if anyone can prove me wrong, their chance is inside a boxing ring. You don’t like it, change the station.
Tyson Fury
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. Lawrence
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Khalil Gibran
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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.
Maya Angelou
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The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.
Maya Angelou
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