Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
Lord Byron
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Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.
David Ogilvy
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Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett
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People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.
Jordan Peterson
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
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He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Virgil
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I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
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When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn’t matter what you’re shooting or how much you’re being paid – it’s not worth it.
Henry Rollins
Got any book recommendations?