Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
Brene Brown
-
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
-
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Swami Vivekananda
-
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Zhuangzi
-
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
-
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift
-
I just like observing people – it’s something I’ve done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That’s a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.
Ellen DeGeneres
-
Amnesty, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Ambrose Bierce
-
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Honore de Balzac
-
Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
Denis Waitley
Got any book recommendations?