Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.
Albert Einstein
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I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
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You are victors, not victims!
Joel Osteen
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I owe a lot to my parents.
Maria Sharapova
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It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
Kevin Hart
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson
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For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‘The A-Team’ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.
Terry Pratchett
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