Philosophy

Bill Brandt, Hail Hell and Halifax, 1948 “Vast organisations produce a sense of impotence in the individual, leading to a...

Godfrey Kneller, Portrait of John Locke, 1697 “What worries you masters you.” “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of...

Iannis Xenakis, Étude pour points lumineux diatope, 1975, detail “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a littletemporary...

Gordon Bennett, After Basquiat (abcd), 1993 “The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupidas his audience so...

Georgia O'Keeffe, Clam and mussel, 1926 “Fear can only enter a part that has been separated from the whole,the dying...

anon “To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process...

Anne Truitt, Truitt 91, 1991 “Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather thesum of what...

John Linnell, Thomas Carlyle, 1844 . “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” “Tell a man he is...

Konstantin Somov, Two Masks (Pair on the Eve of the Carnival), 1930 “The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit...

Confucius, A page from the Analects “Study the past if you would define the future.” “Respect yourself and others will...