Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.
Aldous Huxley
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen
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I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.
Pope Francis
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
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The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.
Robert Kennedy
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity… that’s the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren’t given equality of opportunity.
Zadie Smith
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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
Ray Bradbury
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
Leonard Cohen
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If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that’s no kind of behavior for a planet.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Got any book recommendations?