Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don’t want any part of.
Henry Rollins
-
I didn’t think; I experimented.
Anthony Burgess
-
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins – I was only 16 years old – we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.
John Lewis
-
However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
Charles Spurgeon
-
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon
-
An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare
-
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
Neil Armstrong
-
The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’
Alice Walker
-
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
Harriet Tubman
-
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
Paulo Coelho
Got any book recommendations?