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A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped.


John Barnese


#open-minds #opinions #thought #change

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.


C.S. Lewis


#culture #education #ethics #foundations #justice

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#philosophy #schopenhauer-as-educator #education

Your educators can only be your liberators.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#philosophy #schopenhauer-as-educator #education

Real education is a radical process. It thumps you on the head until everything you know makes no sense anymore. Then you run around picking up the pieces of your head and picking them back together. The pieces never go back together in the same way.


Debbie Millman


#open-mind #education

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.


James Patterson


#opening-lines #warning #experience

An ice sculpture in the Sahara makes about as much sense as donkey left open gaping wagon, Sergeant (add cream cheese sparingly).



Jarod Kintz


#cream-cheese #donkey #ice-sculpture #nonsensical #open

That streetside tree is obscuring the air. Cut it down. Haul it in for questioning. There are secrets within that foliage. You might want to separate the branches in different rooms and apply some elementary game theory.” “Question a plant?” “Trees have a will too, just like people. We have to know it’s purpose. Read Schopenhauer.” “Schopenwho?” “He was the only authentic German. You might like him. Being a police officer, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the need to put an end to the lives of the perverse when sex crimes go too far. Now just generalize that necessity to every human being.


Benson Bruno


#funny #schopenhauer #trees #will #funny

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be


Téa Obreht


#fiction #opening-lines #home

My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city -- well, I"m not saying the event would have gone unnoticed, but the fuss would probably only have lasted a week before public interest moved elsewhere. Besides, in a city you are anonymous; the chances of being picked out as Kristel Kolvenbach's granddaughter would be virtually zero. But in a small town -- well, small towns everywhere are rife with gossip, but in Germany they raise it to an art form.


Helen Grant


#opening-lines #small-towns #art






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