Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce
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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David Thoreau
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Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.
Leo Buscaglia
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I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
Jesse Jackson
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The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.
Keanu Reeves
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell
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I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.
Mary Oliver
Got any book recommendations?