Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!’
Langston Hughes
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
Sam Houston
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I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
Richard P. Feynman
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Honore de Balzac
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Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
Marilyn Monroe
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When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn’t find acting work.
Robin Williams
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire
Got any book recommendations?