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/ Bertrand Russell /"When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little...
07/09/2026

/ Bertrand Russell /
"When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing
privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think."
"Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (born May 18, 1872, Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Eng.—died Feb. 2, 1970, near Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, Wales), British logician and philosopher. He is best known for his work in mathematical logic and for his advocacy on behalf of a variety of social and political causes, especially pacifism and nuclear disarmament. He was born into the British nobility as the grandson of Earl Russell, who was twice prime minister of Britain in the mid-19th century. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Cambridge University, where he came under the influence of the idealist philosopher J.M.E. McTaggart, though he soon rejected idealism in favour of an extreme Platonic realism. In an early paper, “On Denoting” (1905), he solved a notorious puzzle in the philosophy of language by showing how phrases such as “The present king of France,” which have no referents, function logically as general statements rather than as proper names. Russell later regarded this discovery, which came to be known as the “theory of descriptions,” as one of his most important contributions to philosophy. In The Principles of Mathematics (1903) and the epochal Principia Mathematica (3 vol., 1910–13), which he wrote with Alfred North Whitehead, he sought to demonstrate that the whole of mathematics derives from logic. For his pacifism in World War I he lost his lectureship at Cambridge and was later imprisoned. (He would abandon pacifism in 1939 in the face of N**i aggression.) Russell’s best-developed metaphysical doctrine, logical atomism, strongly influenced the school of logical positivism. His later philosophical works include The Analysis of Mind (1921), The Analysis of Matter (1927), and Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948). His A History of Western Philoso..." (Britannica)
'Philosophical Totems of BR'

/ Bernard Shaw /"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!""George Bernard Shaw...
07/09/2026

/ Bernard Shaw /
"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"
"George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalion and Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894."
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Born: July 26, 1856, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland
Died: November 2, 1950, Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England
Resting place: Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence
Occupation: Playwright, critic, polemicist, political activist
Citizenship: British (1856–1950), Irish (dual citizenship, 1934–1950)
'Man and Superman'

/ Charles Beaudelaire /"The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.""Charles Baudelaire, (born A...
06/09/2026

/ Charles Beaudelaire /
"The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist."
"Charles Baudelaire, (born April 9, 1821, Paris, France—died Aug. 31, 1867, Paris), French poet. While a law student he became addicted to o***m and hashish and contracted syphilis. His early reckless spending on fine clothes and furnishings led to a life dogged by debt. In 1844 he formed an association with Jeanne Duval, a woman of mixed black and white ancestry who inspired some of his finest poetry. He published a single novel, La fanfarlo, in 1847. His discovery of the works of Edgar Allan Poe in 1852 led to years of work on Poe, which produced many masterly translations and critical articles. His reputation rests primarily on the extraordinary poetry collection Les fleurs du mal (1857; The Flowers of Evil), which dealt with erotic, aesthetic, and social themes in ways that appalled many of his middle-class readers, and he was accused of obscenity and blasphemy. Though the title became a byword for depravity, the book became perhaps the most influential collection of lyrics published in Europe in the 19th century. His Petits poèmes en prose (1868) was an important and innovative experiment in prose poetry. He also wrote provocative essays in art criticism. Baudelaire’s later years were darkened by disillusionment, despair, and mounting debt; his death at 46 resulted from syphilis. He is regarded as the earliest and finest poet of modernism in French." (Britannica)
Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.76

/ Jacque Fresco /"Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? Th...
05/09/2026

/ Jacque Fresco /
"Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying to give you back your brain, which they took away from you in schools and in your upbringing. I'm trying to show you how the world works. So if you want a better world, you have to get up off your ass and make it better."
"Jacque Fresco was an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Self-taught, he worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design. Fresco wrote and lectured his views on sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, cybernetic technology, automation, and the role of science in society. He directed the Venus Project and advocated global implementation of a socioeconomic system which he referred to as a "resource-based economy".
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Born: March 13, 1916, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Died: May 18, 2017, Sebring, Florida, U.S.
Occupation: Futurist, social engineer, structural engineer, architectural designer, industrial designer, author, lecturer
'Paradise or Oblivion' (movie)

/ Simone de Beauvoir /"Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a bo***ir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is ...
05/09/2026

/ Simone de Beauvoir /
"Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a bo***ir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly."
"Simone de Beauvoir, (born Jan. 9, 1908, Paris, France—died April 14, 1986, Paris), French writer and feminist. As a student at the Sorbonne, she met Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom she formed a lifelong intellectual and romantic bond. She is known primarily for her treatise The Second S*x (1949), a scholarly and passionate plea for the abolition of what she called the myth of the “eternal feminine”; the book became a classic of feminist literature. She also wrote four admired volumes of autobiography (1958–72), philosophical works that explore themes of existentialism, and fiction, notably The Mandarins (1954, Prix Goncourt). The Coming of Age (1970) is a bitter reflection on society’s indifference to the elderly." (Britannica)
The Second S*x (1949)

/ Mark Twain /"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.""Samuel Langhorn...
04/09/2026

/ Mark Twain /
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
"Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature"."
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Born: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, Missouri, U.S.
Died: April 21, 1910, Stormfield House, Redding, Connecticut, U.S.
Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

/ Seneca /"As long as you live, keep learning how to live.""Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymousl...
04/09/2026

/ Seneca /
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
"Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Seneca was born in Córdoba in Hispania, and raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy. His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan. In AD 41, Seneca was exiled to the island of Corsica under emperor Claudius, but was allowed to return in 49 to become a tutor to Nero. When Nero became emperor in 54, Seneca became his advisor and, together with the praetorian prefect S*xtus Afranius Burrus, provided competent government for the first five years of Nero's reign. Seneca's influence over Nero declined with time, and in 65 Seneca was forced to take his own life for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, in which he was probably innocent."
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Born: c. 4 BC, Córdoba, Hispania Baetica (present-day Spain)
Died: AD 65 (aged –), Rome
Nationality: Roman
Other names: Seneca the Younger, Seneca
Notable work: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
'Moral Letters to Lucilius'

/ Galileo Galilei /"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.""Galileo ...
02/09/2026

/ Galileo Galilei /
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
"Galileo (Galilei), (born Feb. 15, 1564, Pisa—died Jan. 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence), Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. Son of a musician, he studied medicine before turning his attention to mathematics. His invention of the hydrostatic balance (c. 1586) made him famous. In 1589 he published a treatise on the centre of gravity in solids, which won him the post of mathematics lecturer at the University of Pisa. There he disproved the Aristotelian contention that bodies of different weights fall at different speeds; he also proposed the law of uniform acceleration for falling bodies and showed that the path of a thrown object is a parabola. The first to use a telescope to study the skies, he discovered (1609–10) that the surface of the Moon is irregular, that the Milky Way is composed of stars, and that Jupiter has moons (see Galilean satellite). His findings led to his appointment as philosopher and mathematician to the grand duke of Tuscany. During a visit to Rome (1611), he spoke persuasively for the Copernican system, which put him at odds with Aristotelian professors and led to Copernicanism’s being declared false and erroneous (1616) by the church. Obtaining permission to write about the Copernican system so long as he discussed it noncommittally, he wrote his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632). Though considered a masterpiece, it enraged the Jesuits, and Galileo was tried before the Inquisition, found guilty of heresy, and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest, continuing to write and conduct research even after going blind in 1637." (Britannica)
"Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

/ Sophocles /"What greater wound is there than a false friend?""This line is spoken by Creon in the context of discussin...
02/09/2026

/ Sophocles /
"What greater wound is there than a false friend?"
"This line is spoken by Creon in the context of discussing loyalty and betrayal. "Antigone" is one of Sophocles' most famous tragedies, exploring themes of family loyalty, state laws, and moral conflict." cpl
"Sophocles , (born c. 496, Colonus, near Athens—died 406 bc, Athens), Greek playwright. With Aeschylus and Euripides, he was one of the three great tragic playwrights of Classical Athens. A distinguished public figure in Athens, he served successively in important posts as a treasurer, commander, and adviser. He competed in dramatic festivals, where he defeated Aeschylus to win his first victory in 468 bc. He went on to achieve unparalleled success, writing 123 dramas for dramatic competitions and achieving more than 20 victories. Only seven tragedies survive in their entirety: Antigone, Ajax, Electra, The Trachinian Women, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus the King, his best-known work. He increased the size of the chorus and was the first to introduce a third actor onstage. For their supple language, vivid characterization, and formal perfection, his works are regarded as the epitome of Greek drama." (Britannica)
'Antigone'

/ Noam Chomsky /"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out...
01/09/2026

/ Noam Chomsky /
"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
"Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science."
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Born: Avram Noam Chomsky, December 7, 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Institutions: University of Arizona (2017–present), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1955–present), Institute for Advanced Study (1958–1959)
Education: University of Pennsylvania (BA, MA, PhD)
Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.111, The New Press

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