But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me; My tendency is to philosophise On most things, from a tyrant to a tree; But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies, What are we? and whence come we? what shall be Our…

Virgin Justice, Zeus’ own daughter, Honored and revered among the Olympian gods … Sits down by the Son of Kronos, her father, And speaks to him about men’s unjust hearts Until the people pay for their foolhardy rulers’ Unjust verdicts and biased decisions. Guard against this, you bribe-eating lords. Judge…

‘Pythagoras, [c. 570 — c. 495 BC], is said to have been the first to call himself a philosopher, a word which heretofore had not been an appellation, but a description. He likened the entrance of men into the present life to the progression of a crowd to some public…

Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e’er lies. - Friedrich Schiller, (1759–1805), ‘Proverbs of Confucius’. What does…

It is not without reason That this hollow Has been put away in a wilderness. It means The place of love Lies not in beaten ways Nor about our human dwellings. Love haunts the deserts. The road that leads to its retreat Is a hard and toilsome road. - Gottfried…

The story goes that Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770–1831), demonstrated the impossibility of there being an eighth planet at the very moment that an eighth planet was being discovered. (Neptune, actually discovered in 1846, independently by John Couch Adams, (1819–1892), in England and Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier, (1811–1877), in France, based…

The nature and purpose of law raises a number of issues, whether law has a particular purpose and if so what is it? To achieve justice (howsoever defined)? To protect the rights of the individual? To ensure political, economic and gender equality? How does it relate to morality? Is it…

‘This scepticism reached a much deeper point in Gorgias of Leontium, in Sicily, a man of great culture, and also distinguished as a statesman. During the Peloponnesian war he was, in 01. 88, 2 (427 B.C.), a few years after Pericles’ death in 0l. 87, 4, sent from his native…

‘The temporal and transitory certainly exists, and may cause us trouble enough, but in spite of that it is no true reality, any more than the particularity of the subject, his wishes and inclinations, are so’. ‘In connection with this observation, the distinction is to be called to mind which…