The TikTok generation is rediscovering thinkers both ancient and modern who can help them make sense of the world ...

Socrates was talking about its importance in the fifth century BC. The poet Rumi, taught his students its virtues in the 13th century. Political ... was inspired by this quote from Rumi to teach ...

Predictably, there have been more reactions to this column on my assertion that John the Baptist received and gave to mankind the great Revelation generally referred to as the Revelation of John.

His Goodreads profile shows that he liked quotes from a variety of individuals, from Socrates to the “Unabomber,” Ted Kaczynski. He left a four-star comment on Kaczynski’s manifesto on Goodreads and ...

I will quote a passage by Pericles from Thucydides' History of the ... that justice is keeping what is properly one's own and doing one's own job.' [v] 9. As Socrates days draw near their end, he is ...

He enjoyed delving into the works of great philosophers and thinkers like Socrates, Rousseau ... He then wrote his very first public, political speech in less than an hour. During his short ...

At the end of the ‘Conversations’, Benjamin quotes a Brechtian maxim ... where the wise and dispassionate man is hero. Indeed, Socrates applauded the new ‘rationalist’ drama of Euripides, which ...

What if Tolstoy, not Socrates, were actually the hero of Callard’s story? It’s clear that she’s closely read his novels, which she quotes extensively even while flogging him for failed self ...

During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book to make the case that we need to argue more. But in “Open Socrates ...

During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book to make the case that we need to argue more. But in “Open Socrates ...