By: Euripides N heaven-high musings and many, Far-seeking and deep debate, Of strong things find I not any That is as the strength of Fate. Help nor healing is told In soothsayings
Poem By: LUCRETIUS Delight of Humankind, and Gods above;Parent of Rome; Propitious Queen of Love;Whose vital pow’r, Air, Earth, and Sea supplies;And breeds what e’r is born beneath the rowling Skies:For every
An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave
NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached
By: Charles Dickens I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle
By: Franz Kafka Before the law sits a gatekeeper. To this gatekeeper comes a man from the country who asks to gain entry into the law. But the gatekeeper says that he
By: William Wordsworth My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;So be it when I shall
By: A.C. Grayling Parmenides was born to a wealthy family at Elea either around the year 515 BCE, as Diogenes Laertius says, or a decade or two later, so that Plato’s claim
Chapter 3 Whenever one thing is predicated of another as of a subject, all things said of what ispredicated will be said of the subject also. For example, man is predicated of
By: Francis Bacon THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies;