Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can’t.
Rodney Dangerfield
-
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
-
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
John C. Maxwell
-
With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.
Nikola Tesla
-
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Virgil
-
I’ve played all over the world. I’ve played in England, South Africa, Pakistan.
Imran Tahir
-
The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.
Sojourner Truth
-
‘Fahrenheit 451′ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.
Ray Bradbury
-
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
Albert Schweitzer
-
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Got any book recommendations?