Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‘If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.’
Taylor Swift
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God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Aeschylus
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.
Dolly Parton
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.
Orson Welles
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee
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I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
Keanu Reeves
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus
Got any book recommendations?