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Benjamin Jowett • The Republic
You've probably heard of this guy called Erasmus before — but who was he? Well, this quote sums him up:
"I believe in listening to both sides with openness. I love liberty. I will not and cannot serve any faction."
Here is the story of history's greatest educator... https://t.co/OXFcAJhO7F
Henry Oliver and I discuss why Shakespeare is "the greatest thinker": https://t.co/w4fXt01RrC, transcript too.
tylercowenx.comTHOMAS AQUINAS (b. 1225 or 1226, d. 1274) is regarded as the greatest of scholastic philosophers. In all Catholic educational institutions that teach philosophy his system has to be taught as the only right one; this has been the rule since a rescript of 1879 by Leo XIII.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell - Message To Future Generations (1959)
youtu.beAccording to Goethe, Byron’s poetical power eclipsed all other mortals, and he was not held back by petty morality, being possessed of a virtue of which the bourgeoisie had no conception.
Alan Cardew • Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
