Category: Philosophy

Gaius Musonius Rufus was a Roman Stoic philosopher of the 1st century AD. He taught philosophy in Rome during the reign of Nero. A collection of extracts from his lectures still survives. He is also remembered for being the teacher of Epictetus. He is known as “Roman socrates”. Read below some of the Quotes of…

Ayn Rand (February 2 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected faith and religion. Today,…

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist. He  was also trained as a physician. William James was the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.  And,   James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century. William James is  one…

Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women,…