Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Prayers

    Continue in prayer.-Paul. Prayer is a study of truth ; a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite.-Emerson. Let every man study his prayers, and read his duty in his petitions.-Jeremy Taylor. A German writer calls man the “endless cause-seeker.” This designation contains much truth, for no sooner is an object or event presented […]

  • The Christ Spirit

    The flesh profiteth nothing; it is the spirit maketh alive. Lo! I am with you always.—New Testament. It is the fate of every notable man to suffer from misrepresentation. His good and bad qualities are equally exaggerated. Perhaps no absolutely correct biography has ever been or ever can be written. Doubtless Boswell overpraised Johnson and […]

  • The Christ Man

    Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?— New Testament It may be accounted as a misfortune that the world possesses no authentic portrait of Jesus of Nazareth. There is, indeed, one in existence, which is said to have been the product of a miracle. The story is that, on the way […]

  • The Christ Child

    And when they were come into the house they saw the young child. New Testament Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. Milton The Child is father of the man. Wordsworth Before its full splendor actually arrives, each new day sends forth heralds to announce its coming. While the sun is still eighteen […]

  • Mothers

    Behold thy mother. Jesus A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.— Coleridge The woman soul leadeth us upward and on.— Goethe In the early and middle centuries of our era, organized Christianity made many mistakes. It formulated some doctrines that were very unreasonable. Nevertheless, an impartial survey of its history forbids unlimited […]

  • Troubles

    Affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, yet man is born to trouble as the sparks to fly upward.— Job Literature is a mirror of human thought and action. It reflects the world at large. It is at once an expression of the present age and of […]

  • Imagination

    He endured as seeing Him who is invisible.— Paul My eyes make pictures when they are shut.— Coleridge. In our present state of knowledge it is impossible to write a natural history of the soul. Many trans-formations may have occurred in its coming. It is very certain that the human body underwent numerous changes before […]

  • Work

    Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening.— Hebrew Scriptures. The latest gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it.—Carlyle. Work must be numbered among the world’s greatest necessities. Every visible object is a product of some form of activity. From the combination of chemical elements, which […]

  • Trifles

    Ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment,, mercy and faith. Jesus. The whole discourse, of which this sentence is a detached fragment, is full of denunciation against those persons who see life only on its smaller side. As a piece of sarcasm, it […]

  • Nature As A Means Of Grace

    For the invisible things of Him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. Paul. To him, who, in the love of Nature Holds communion with her visible forms, She speaks a various language.—Bryant. The attempt to speak in favor of the natural world from a […]

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