Great thinkers

UNDER CONSTRUCTION (Iʻm planning to clean this up ASAP) An initial question may be plaguing you right at the outset: “Who the @*#% is Will Durant? And why should I believe him?” Well, D…

On an open mind: G. K. Chesterton is one of the least known great thinkers, authors, and preachers of the latter 19th and early 20th centuries. His witty wisdom can be found not only in trenchant statements of truth, but in mystery novels and short stories, and in profound essays elucidating what are, to most, hard-to-understand realities of everyday life.

Young photo portraits of many of our world's great thinkers, scientists, artists, and a few others.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character-- that is the goal of true education.

The difference between opinion and empathy as forms of human knowledge, according to one of Western history's greatest thinkers.

Where does sexual orientation come from? It’s a tired question and, frankly, a tiresome one, since it always seems to lead us back to the same familiar...

Edward W. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he...

Franklin was an American polymath active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, political philosopher, and more. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions…

In addition to being one of the world's greatest thinkers, Albert Einstein was also quite the philosopher. These are just a few of his many brilliant quotes.

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