Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire
-
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles Spurgeon
-
Siren voices tell me, ‘You don’t have to keep going on.’ And then you think, ‘I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?’ I don’t know. I like being a writer.
Terry Pratchett
-
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
Noam Chomsky
-
To begin, begin.
William Wordsworth
-
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
-
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.
Douglas Adams
-
The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.
Simon Sinek
Got any book recommendations?