Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Honore de Balzac
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Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
Marilyn Monroe
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I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles.
Bernie Sanders
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The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
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If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King
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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Alexander the Great
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A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.
Robert E. Lee
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
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I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.
Mae Jemison
Got any book recommendations?