Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de Montaigne
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Some days I can’t get an idea, and I think, ‘Man, I’m just washed up,’ but it’s just a mood.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
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None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
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We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.
Robert Kennedy
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The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top.
Rush Limbaugh
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For me, education was power.
Michelle Obama
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James Baldwin
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
Mary Oliver
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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Got any book recommendations?