Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people’s signals.
Sonia Sotomayor
-
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
Thomas Hobbes
-
I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn’t stress the actors.
Shah Rukh Khan
-
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien
-
XOXO met the deadline and left late for her dome. She was tired and just wanted to take a music bath and rest. Not many bellows had passed when her metal wire turned red.
Nishta Kochar
-
I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.
Taylor Swift
-
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
Julius Caesar
-
I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.
Mary Oliver
-
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas Merton
-
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Got any book recommendations?