Frederick II the Great (1740-1786) aspired to be a Philosopher King; he had relations with key French Enlightenment figures incl. Voltaire

Rainer Ehrt🇩🇪 (1960-) a painter, graphic artist, illustrator, cartoonist and author

Chess (Friedrich and Voltaire), 1994
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"— Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher ?
— What sinews are those ?
— A will undisappointed, evils avoided, powers daily exercised, careful resolutions, unerring decisions."

~ Epictetus

"Discourses"

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Yaomomo in Ravenclaw 🦅
Todoroki in Slytherin 🐍
I started reading Harry potter & the philosopher's stone🤓⚡

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To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

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When you're an internet weirdo and a deadbeat philosopher but your mom is one of the hottest MILFs in existence so you look deceptively beautiful 😔😔😔

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actual dilemma faced by Analytic Philosophers

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"Why are people only capable of rational thought after they've already screwed up?"
~Peter Grill

Source: Peter Grill to Kenja no Jikan / Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time
Epi 2 (dub and sub)

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Mars is once again a warrior, with Aries (ram) & Scorpio near him. Jupiter is a philosopher, priest, with archer (Sagittarius) & fish (Pisces) near him.

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Born Albert Gleizes French art theoretician philosopher & self-proclaimed founder influenced School of Paris founding member of Section d’Or Der Sturm artistic groups & co-wrote 1st significant treatise Du Cubisme on Cubism Ideas adopted by Bauhaus

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as the wise philosopher once said

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i did this and even after repeatedly telling akinator i was a vampire obsessed with blood and a philosopher i got

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Day 14: Asbel takes the girl to the town, showing her human life. On the way back, they stop by a field, where Protos Heis picks a bunch of flowers. Asbel lets slip that his daughter was named after those flowers- Sopherias.

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Ed and Al two brothers who committed the ultimate taboo in alchemy that is human transmutation must uncover the truth of the philosopher stone in order to get there bodies back. The truth lies deep within the library of the very first HBCU😳👀

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📚#Mangadujour : Dans les pas de Nietzsche T2/3, . Toujours aussi instructif et propice à la réflexion avec notamment une défense du nihilisme, par Schopenhauer qui est assez convaincante dans sa façon de mener au bonheur. Un super manga pour philosopher !

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I wanna say this right now fire opal looks the closest to a philosopher's stone

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"Alexander met the philosopher Diogenes at Corinth and offered to grant any wish he might have. Diogenes merely replied, 'Move Aside A Little, You Are Shading The Sun'".

🎨Nicolai Abildgaard - Alexander og Diogenes
🖊 "Danish Paintings of the Nineteenth Century" by Bruce Museum

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St. Catherine of Alexandria 😇

Patron Saint of Philosophers and Preachers

25 November

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Aesop (620–564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist who “made use of humble incidents to teach great truths” according to philosopher Apollonius of Tyana. Animals feature prominently in Aesop’s fables. These illustrations: Alice and Martin Provensen, published in 1965.

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