Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don’t know and you assume that many of your readers don’t know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.
Tom Wolfe
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You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it’s going to be really hard to come back.
Imran Tahir
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain
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So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‘That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.’ How fun is that?
Tom Brady
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The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
Jim Valvano
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
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Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida, and he said to the people, ‘If you all can’t vote for me, don’t vote for those oval-headed lizards. Vote for !’ And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes.
Shirley Chisholm
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