Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
Abraham Lincoln
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants.
Robert Kennedy
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Heraclitus
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain
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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
George Bernard Shaw
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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Lord Byron
Got any book recommendations?