#philosophy Exploitation.“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I…

#philosophy Compassion vs Cruelty.On a fateful day in Turin, Italy, in 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed a horse being brutally beaten by its owner. The philosopher was overcome with compassion as…

#literature #philosophy “When I Am Dead, My Dearest".When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head,Nor shady cypress-tree:Be the green grass above…

#history Pythagoras.The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras ( born 370 BC) was both a mathematician and a mystic.Pythagoras liked to callhimself a lover of wisdom, orphilo sophos—a philosopher. He is believed…

#literature #philosophy “Do not stand at my grave and weep,I am not there, I do not sleep.I am in a thousand winds that blow,I am the softly falling snow.I am…

#philosophy Life's Losses.Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of…