Philosophers

Embark on a journey through the minds of great philosophers, and uncover the timeless wisdom and intriguing ideas that have sparked curiosity and shaped our world.

Virginia Woolf

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

James Joyce

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."

Rosa Luxemburg

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently."

Michel Foucault

"Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere."

Judith Butler

"Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a 'doing' rather than a 'being.'"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

Vladimir Lenin

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is power."

Zeno of Citium

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Smile, breathe, and go slowly."

Nagarjuna

"There is nothing whatsoever of samsara that is different from nirvana, and there is nothing whatsoever of nirvana that is different from samsara."

Lao Tzu

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Mencius

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."

Baruch Spinoza

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."

Seneca

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

Michelangelo

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

Mary Wollstonecraft

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

Martin Heidegger

"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."

Søren Kierkegaard

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."