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Apr 20, 2025
"The Epic of Gilgamesh" is one of the oldest known pieces of literature, originating from ancient Mesopotamia, specifica...
Leonardo da Vinci: "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
Jun 11, 2025
A fictional character can, through their voice, state the moral position of the stories author. As with this beautiful quo...
Philosophy Says
The kindest people are not born that way, they are made. They are the ones that have experienced so much at the hands of l...
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." – George Orwell
Apr 15, 2025
philosopher Quotes
Language fails us in times of great grief, in times of extremity, in times of stress. What can we say, where can we find t...
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George Orwell once said: The most terrible loneliness is not the kind that comes from being alone, but the kind that comes...
"Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water." – Anatole France
Aristotle's assertion that "happiness depends upon ourselves" encapsulates a profound philosophical stance on the essen...
Franz Kafka
"Everything you are l...
I just finished reading Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", and I'm still reeling from the experience. This play is...
If Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius were in a room together, what would they disagree on?