prodigy

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.'
- Blaise Pascal [1623-1662]

no time for death

"If you can dream it, you can do it. I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else."

- Enzo Ferrari [1898-1988]

"father of liberalism"

"What worries you, masters you."

– John Locke [1632-1704]

Stoicism

 

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
- Marcus Aurelius [121 AD - 180 AD]

"This quote encapsulates Aurelius' Stoic philosophy, emphasizing the idea that obstacles and challenges should not discourage us, but rather serve as opportunities for growth and transformation. It suggests that the difficulties we encounter can be viewed as stepping stones toward progress and that the very things that obstruct our path can become the means to overcome them. By shifting our perspective and seeing obstacles as a natural part of life, we can navigate through challenging times with resilience and determination."

- AI generated

répondez s'il vous plaît

 

"By not saying anything, you're saying something."
- Plato, circa 4th century BCE

big kids

 

the absurd

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”

– Jean Cocteau [1889-1963]

civil war veteran

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”

– Ambrose Bierce [1842-1914]

Noumenon

"We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack." 
- Arthur Schopenhauer [1788-1860]

in the moment

"Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine. the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine."

- Horace [65 BCE-8 BCE]

the ancients procrastinated too

"Well begun is half done."

- Aristotle [384BCE-322BCE]

led the transcendentalist movement

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]

couldn't prove there is no god, but was an atheist

“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
—Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]

First scientist

Thales of Miletus, [c. 624–620 BCE — c. 548–545 BCE] used a scientific method which didn't resort to mystical or mythological explanations, but he did believe that the Earth was a flat disk floating on a vast sea.

On teamwork

                                

                                   Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ? 

In the books you will read the names of kings. 
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ? 

And Babylon, many times demolished, 
Who raised it up so many times ? 

In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live? 

Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?

Great Rome is full of triumphal arches. 
Who erected them ? 

Over whom did the Caesars triumph? 

Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ? 

Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it, 
The drowning still cried out for their slaves. 

The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone ? 

Caesar defeated the Gauls. 
Did he not even have a cook with him ? 

Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down. 
Was he the only one to weep ?  

Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War. 
Who else won it ? 

Every page a victory. 
Who cooked the feast for the victors ? 

Every 10 years a great man. 
Who paid the bill ? 

So many reports.  

So many questions.

Bertholt Brecht [1898-1956]

Wabi Sabi

The acceptance of transience and imperfection. 

Objectivist

“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.”
– Ayn Rand [1905-1982]

faith cannot be fully understood in times of happiness

"... faith sees best in the dark"
- Søren Kierkegaard [1813-1855 ], Gospel of Sufferings

Roman Emperor

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
- Marcus Aurelius [121-180]

Athenian

“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”
– Euripides [480 - 406 BCE]