Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
Hedy Lamarr
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Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven’t written yet, and it doesn’t even matter if I don’t ever write them, because it’s only small potatoes compared with the big picture.
George Harrison
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The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
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I have not the smarts or patience for political office.
Henry Rollins
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If I write a book where all I’ve ever experienced is success, people won’t take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Brian Tracy
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To reason logically is so to link one’s propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one’s own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.
Jean Piaget
Got any book recommendations?