Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo
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I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.
Hunter S. Thompson
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I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‘freedom’ means than I see much evidence of in America.
Douglas Adams
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.
Ruby Bridges
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There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.
Noam Chomsky
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I’ve been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
Michael Jordan
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Art never improves, but… the material of art is never quite the same.
T. S. Eliot
Got any book recommendations?