Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Richard M. Nixon
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
Paulo Coelho
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare
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My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.
Bill Gates
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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Warren Buffett
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Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
Charles Bukowski
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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle
Got any book recommendations?