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Rather than immediately order her execution, Maxentius sent 50 of his most gifted orators and philosophers to persuade her to renounce her faith. Moved by the power of the Holy Spirit, Catherine converted some of her opponents.
The mythic philosopher’s stone could turn metals into gold. But 20th-cen historian, Frances Yates, a hero to me, showed the link between Renaissance, occult, alchemical thinkers, like Dee & Bruno (burned alive) & the protosciences of Newton -rich histories. ☺️📚
#MythologyMonday
tweaked Emberlight's design just a bit, along with giving her spear a Trident Form. The Philosopher Battle Mage sure is a flexible class!
Piglette from Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time for @SecretScrapV2
#Piglette #PeterGrill
✨⭐️💫 ”A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.” 💫⭐️✨
~ Neil Gaiman, "Stardust" ~ #fairytale
#Illustrations by Charles Vess
Princess Lana, Kid Icarus and Fateicus The Philosopher from Episode 6 Wishful Thinking.
@MizTeeFranklin My edibles amplify my dissociative symptoms & executive dysfunction -- in better ways w/ the right indica strain & enough CBD, or worse ways w/ the wrong sativa strain & too much THC. My inner philosopher, inner comedian, inner nerd, & inner stoner party it up while I watch 🤯🌿
Truth is the Daughter of Time and I have NO Shame being Her Midwife
- Johanne's Keller, Astronomer & Philosopher
12 Archimedean Solids the 'Duals' to the Platonic Solids. ALL of Matter is Made Up of Polyhedrons.
Fear is the Weapon. Ignorance is the Enemy.🙏🌞🌙🌠🎶
Ibn Rushd, or Averroes in the West. Cordoban jurist and philosopher.
February 17, 1600: Sentenced by the Inquisition, philosopher/scientist Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in the Campo de' Fiori square in Rome.
Sketch by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/DpR4w19d2L
#GiordanoBruno #Occult #Inquisition #History #OnThisDay #TravisSimpkins #NASA
Mimi Alpacas from Peter Grill and The Philosopher's Time
@LilithLovett @poldiscoursebot are we truly trans if we dont own a milkor MGL m32 with fragmentation grenades
ancient philosopher socrates once asked himself the same before untimely death of bullet poisoning
Favorite #PotterChapters
Philosopher's Stone chapter 12: "The Mirror of Erised"
Harry was so close to the mirror now that his nose was nearly touching that of his reflection.
"Mom?" he whispered. "Dad?"
https://t.co/7T0oIeLcE5
#PotterLexicon
#PotterArt by Marina Michkina
#Otd 1999: Death in Oxford of #Phibsborough #Dublin's Dame Iris Murdoch DBE. Philosopher/novelist: good & evil, sexual relationships, morality & power of unconscious.👩🎓@SomervilleOx @Newnham_College. Lecturer @StAnnesCollege @RCA. Ashes; Oxford Crematorium https://t.co/XefhWdccto
"So, this is death. Well!" — final words of the Scottish philosopher + historian Thomas Carlyle who died #onthisday in 1881. He's pictured here in a 19th-century print produced by the Japanese Department of Education, of which you can see more here https://t.co/RQyEQJDCqP #otd
"Abbas Ibn Firnas"
in Andalusia, there were so many Muslim philosophers reading from the great Greece philosophy, some said Abbas was inspired by the myth of (Icarus).
#quoteoftheday
"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human #soul."
Simone Weil (1909–1943)
#quotes #quotesoftheday #quotestoliveby #quotesaboutlife #quotesdaily #lifequotes #philosophy #philosophie #philosopher #roots
In Alex’s Amazing School, an ancient king wants his son to get the best education. Aristotle the Greek philosopher, becomes his teacher & the lessons Alex learns, will one day help his dreams come true! Art by Letizia Depedri
#nationalstorytellingweek #nationalcurriculum #stories