"THE GREATER PART OF MEN ARE MUCH TOO EXHAUSTED AND ENERVATED BY THEIR STRUGGLE WITH WANT TO BE ABLE TO ENGAGE IN A NEW AND SEVERE...

"CONSTANT AND FREQUENT QUESTIONING IS THE FIRST KEY TO WISDOM … FOR THROUGH DOUBTING WE ARE LED TO INQUIRE, AND BY INQUIRY WE PERCEIVE...

"WE ARE WHAT WE REPEATEDLY DO. ARETE, THEN, IS NOT AN ACT BUT A HABIT." ARISTOTLE ARETE IS A CONCEPT IN ANCIENT GREEK THOUGHT THAT, IN...

SØREN AABYE KIERKEGAARD WAS A DANISH THEOLOGIAN...

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO WAS A THEOLOGIAN...

DEMOCRITUS WAS A PRE-SOCRATIC GREEK PHILOSOPHER.

"WE SAIL WITHIN A VAST SPHERE, EVER DRIFTING IN UNCERTAINTY, DRIVEN FROM END TO END." BLAISE PASCAL BLAISE PASCAL WAS A FRENCH...

"HATRED AND ANGER ARE THE GREATEST POISON TO THE HAPPINESS OF A GOOD MIND…" ADAM SMITH ADAM SMITH WAS A SCOTTISH ECONOMIST, PHILOSOPHER,...

"MAN—EVERY MAN—IS AN END IN HIMSELF, NOT A MEANS TO THE ENDS OF OTHERS; HE MUST LIVE FOR HIS OWN SAKE, NEITHER SACRIFICING HIMSELF TO...

"NEVER ALLOW YOURSELVES TO FORGET THAT IT IS FOR THEIR OWN SAKES AND NOT FOR YOURS THAT ALL THOSE WISE LAWGIVERS HAVE FORCED YOU INTO...

"A TRUE INTELLECTUAL INTUITION IS THE UNIFYING ACTIVITY IN PURE EXPERIENCE. IT IS A GRASP OF LIFE, LIKE HAVING THE KNACK OF AN ART OR,...

"WE CANNOT CONCEIVE OF ANY END OR LIMIT TO THE WORLD, BUT ALWAYS AS OF NECESSITY IT OCCURS TO US THAT THERE IS SOMETHING BEYOND..."...

MAIMONIDES POSTULATES: ... GOD DID NOT CREATE EVIL, RATHER GOD CREATED GOOD, AND EVIL EXISTS WHERE GOOD IS ABSENT......

FRANCIS HUTCHESON WAS A PHILOSOPHER BORN IN ULSTER TO A FAMILY OF SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIANS WHO BECAME KNOWN AS ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS...

GROTIUS WROTE: "FULLY CONVINCED...THAT THERE IS A COMMON LAW AMONG NATIONS, WHICH IS VALID ALIKE FOR WAR AND IN WAR, I HAVE HAD MANY AND...

"WE CAN KNOW ONLY ONE THING ABOUT GOD - THAT HE IS WHAT WE ARE NOT. OUR WRETCHEDNESS ALONE IS AN IMAGE OF THIS. THE MORE WE CONTEMPLATE...