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Mitch Flitcroft

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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom

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“I, who boast of embracing the pleasures of life so assiduously and so particularly, find in them, when I look at them thus minutely, virtually nothing but wind. But what of it? We are all wind.”
― Michel de Montaigne

tags: life-lessons, spirituality, wisdom

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“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“What would you risk dying for—and for whom—is perhaps the most profound question a person can ask themselves. The vast majority of people in modern society are able to pass their whole lives without ever having to answer that question, which is both an enormous blessing and a significant loss.”
― Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

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“The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected. As soon as we begin to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we saw in our opening chapters, that even the most everyday things lead to problems to which only very incomplete answers can be given….”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

tags: philosophy

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