Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
Alexander the Great
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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Mark Twain
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
Fidel Castro
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.
Robert Baden-Powell
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire
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What I hate about Halle Berry is there’s always drama around her. It’s always fighting, automobile accidents, fistfights, boyfriends fighting ex-husbands for the child.
Donald Trump
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I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
John Wooden
Got any book recommendations?