Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.
Sojourner Truth
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For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
Bill Gates
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We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world – but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.
Donald Trump
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When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.
Marilyn Monroe
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I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
Taylor Swift
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
Arthur Ashe
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I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.
Alice Walker
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
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Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Got any book recommendations?