Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‘Happy Feet’ to ‘Little Face.’
Kevin Hart
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.
Noam Chomsky
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For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‘Here I am, read me.’ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya Angelou
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.
Stephen Hawking
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The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They’re really ignorant.
Rush Limbaugh
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs
Got any book recommendations?