Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Lord Byron
-
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
Colin Powell
-
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I’m thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I’ve come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
Zadie Smith
-
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes
-
The song ‘Innocent’ is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
Taylor Swift
-
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
-
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray Bradbury
-
We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson
-
Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.
Maya Angelou
Got any book recommendations?