Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.
Stephen Hawking
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I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.
David Bowie
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Writing music is just like writing a book.
Billie Eilish
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Euripides
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I’ve only written one science-fiction book: ‘Fahrenheit 451.’ That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.
Ray Bradbury
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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard Shaw
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Oscar Wilde
Got any book recommendations?