"The Consolation of Philosophy" (Latin: De consolatione philosophiæ) is a work by the sixth-century philosopher Boethius that has been described as having had the...
Parmenides
Parmenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the more, if not the most, challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The Parmenides...
The Spanish Wars
On the defeat of Pharnaces and reduction of Africa, those who escaped from those battles fled to young Cn. Pompey, who had taken possession of Further Spain, while Caesar was...
The Miracle Of Right Thought
"...there is an actual powerful creative force in our legitimate desires, in believing with all our hearts that, no matter what the seeming obstacles, we shall be what we were...
The New Organon
The New Organum, full original title "Novum Organum Scientiarum" (‘new instrument of science’), is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin...
Free Thought And Official Propaganda
Moncure Conway, in whose honour we are assembled to-day, devoted his life to two great objects: freedom of thought and freedom of the individual. In regard to both these objects,...
On Liberty
"On Liberty" is a philosophical work by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay.John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873)...
Oration On The Dignity Of Man
The Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate) is a famous public discourse pronounced in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola, an Italian scholar and philosopher of the...
Mysticism And Logic
Metaphysics, or the attempt to conceive the world as a whole by means of thought, has been developed, from the first, by the union and conflict of two very different human...
The Prophet
"The Prophet" is a collection of prose poems written and published by Khalil Gibran in 1923. Many different themes are included in the work. The text, in fact, speaks of...
