Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
Fidel Castro
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Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
Eminem
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Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
Phil McGraw
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac
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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Dale Carnegie
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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas Adams
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.
Taylor Swift
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long – then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Jean de la Bruyere
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If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it’s the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.
Michael Bloomberg
Got any book recommendations?