ERNEST HEMINGWAY

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies; The man who never reads lives only one.”

George R. R. Martin ...

"As Cicero says, we hate gladiators if they are quick to save their lives by any means; we favor them if they show contempt for their lives." - Seneca

• We do not need to disregard our physical safety or engage in wanton acts of violence to be brave. But nobody respects a cowar...

René Descartes thought we know objects through reason.

Simple problems may be solved using our senses, but more complicated issues need reason to figure it out. We can easily distinguish between a triangle and a square. But when we consider two polygons, one with a thousand sides and t...