Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Noam Chomsky
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I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.
Freddie Mercury
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
Margaret Mead
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It’s hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Mae West
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo
Got any book recommendations?