Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
J. K. Rowling
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell
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Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.
Henry Rollins
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
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My life has been about big changes.
Brad Pitt
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
Got any book recommendations?