Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Elvis Presley
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If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
Hedy Lamarr
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There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel Proust
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
Zadie Smith
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I don’t think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.
Rush Limbaugh
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There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.
Terry Pratchett
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
Diogenes
Got any book recommendations?