Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
Erma Bombeck
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
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After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.
Noam Chomsky
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James Madison
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I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.
Alice Walker
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As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.
Joe Biden
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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John Ruskin
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Everything you do in a patient’s room, after he is ‘put up’ for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk – you secure him a bad night.
Florence Nightingale
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
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