The Philosopher I Love to Quote
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” Heraclitus I love to quote Heraclitus, because he seems so gentle and serene. Think again!...
View ArticleThe Philosopher of Paradoxes
“The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.” Zeno Zeno of Elea is renowned for his paradoxes. Indeed, they continue to challenge, confound, inspire and amuse even until this day. We can...
View ArticleThe Women of Philosophy
“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.” Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of...
View ArticleThe Philosopher Priestess at Delphi
“Aristoxenus says that Pythagoras got most of his moral doctrines from the Delphic priestess, Themistoclea.” Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Themistoclea was a sacred...
View ArticleArete – The Splendour of Greece
“A wise man’s country is the world” Aristippus of Cyrene Arete of Cyrene, daughter of the philosopher Aristippus, was born and raised in the city of Cyrene located in North Africa in what it now the...
View ArticleHipparchia’s Great Love
“Not one tower does my country have, not one roof, But for home and city, the entire earth lies, At my disposition for a dwelling.” Diogenes Laertius, on a Cynic’s view of the world The moment...
View ArticleLeontion, The Audacious
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” Epicurus Whenever I think of Epicurus, I think of a sumptuous...
View ArticleThe Love of Diotima
“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.” Plato, Symposium Diotima of...
View ArticleAspasia of Miletus
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” Socrates In every age, you will find a woman that captures the imagination of an entire generation. And then there are the...
View ArticleThe Search for Truth
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The singular connection throughout the narratives of the ancient world...
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