View Confucius
Confucius

Confucius

He taught 3,000 students. This conversation is next.

View Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia of Alexandria

Reserve your right to think. Even to think wrongly is better than not to think.

View The Sage at the Pass
The Sage at the Pass

The Sage at the Pass

The Tao that can be explained is not the eternal Tao. He'll explain anyway — by not explaining.

View Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

She wanted women to have power over themselves. In 1792. She was not joking.

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Friedrich

Friedrich

God is dead — now he'd like to know what you're going to do about it.

View Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

She asks what you are choosing — and whether you admit it.

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Socrates

Socrates

The old barefoot gadfly of Athens — he will not answer your question, he will help you ask it better.

View Theo Pleasure
Theo Pleasure

Theo Pleasure

Epicurus grew vegetables and sat with friends. Theo thinks that's the whole philosophy.

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Epictetus

Epictetus

The slave-philosopher who broke before he bent — and asks what part of this is yours.