If you can spend a perfectly useless in a useless manner, you have learned how to ~Lin Yutang (1895 –1976)

Chen-Yi Lin https://t.co/wDBcY3raXP

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Rembrandt, The Philosopher in Meditation

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585 BC Solar eclipse, as predicted by Greek philosopher Thales, while Lydians at war with the Medes leads to a truce. One of the cardinal dates from which other dates calculated.

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23 May 1667: Margaret Cavendish Duchess of & invited to attend the Royal Society She went on the 30th.

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DIGITAL LIBRARY | For Issue 108's One on One column, Slavs and Tatars write about Johann Georg Hamann, the "enfant terrible of the Counter-Enlightenment," and how the philosopher influenced their thinking. Read the full article: https://t.co/cKMYG7kwhT

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First-Edition Copy of "Philosopher's Stone" Up for Auction - https://t.co/nphGYKRhbv

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Diet → “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.” José Ortega y Gasset, Philosopher, born 5-9-1883 | ✏️ Radostina Georgieva () https://t.co/VXkhaBGjBj animated https://t.co/AzgCtszMx7 by Mikhail Nikipelov.

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dangan ocs i suddenly wanted to draw (first pic is old though)
prosecutor, philosopher, good luck
in that order

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My Urban Shadows OC! She's trying to create the philosopher's stone to revive her dead sister, which is a great idea where nothing can go wrong! (Reuploaded for hopefully higher quality? How does twitter even work)

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Margaret Frances "Peggy" Bacon (1895 – 1987) was a printmaker, illustrator, painter & writer.

Bacon was a very prolific artist. In 1919, at the age of 24, she wrote and illustrated her first book, The True Philosopher and Other Cat Tales.

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As the great philosopher-poet Rihanna once said, "Werk, werk, werk, werk, werk." 🎵🎶

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Fanart of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"! Or Sorcerer's depending where you're from or if you're a movie-only fan haha.

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Wise and compassionate words from our former patron Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, logician, political activist, and humanist.

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Tired: Elon Musk has an FMA avatar b/c he's a weeb

Wired: Elon Musk has an FMA avatar b/c he's using underground tunnels to create a Nationwide Transmutation Circle to use the human energy of the US population to create a Philosopher's Stone for a breakthrough in energy density

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Much of the Gothic artwork of Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) could double as illustrations for ‘Dracula’.
A German Romanticist (he studied under Caspar David Friedrich) he was also a physician, biologist, and philosopher.

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