Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A President cannot always be popular.
Harry S Truman
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I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
Elvis Presley
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
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My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don’t pray regularly enough.
Tyson Fury
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You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can’t go back to living the way you did before because you’ve been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas Carlyle
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The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.
Noam Chomsky
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The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Albert Camus
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Got any book recommendations?