Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski
-
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo Machiavelli
-
The body never lies.
Martha Graham
-
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato
-
Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare
-
My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
Maria Sharapova
-
Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.
Henry Rollins
-
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you’re an open book, there’s no allure.
Alexander McQueen
-
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Got any book recommendations?