Philosophy /
Nature: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience: BBQ Apron
'If
the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be
the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.'
(Transcendental philosopher and naturalist Henry David
Thoreau on Civil Disobedience) |
Henry David
Thoreau BBQ Apron
'Simplify, Simplify. ... Rather
than love, than money, than fame, give me truth'
(Henry
Thoreau, Art Portrait & Philosophy of Nature Quote Custom Prints) |
Charles Darwin:
Evolution BBQ Apron
'I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural
Selection'
(Charles Darwin, Pictures &
Quotes. Science of Evolution / Nature) |
Michel de Montaigne
Education BBQ Apron
'Since philosophy is the
art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as
much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?'
(Philosopher Michel de Montaigne on the Importance of
Philosophy for Life) |
Christianity:
Truth / Myth BBQ Apron
'There was only one true
Christian, and he died on the cross'
(Friedrich
Nietzsche on Christianity, famous atheist philosopher who wrote 'God is
Dead') |
Education Nelson
Mandela BBQ Apron
'Education is the most powerful
weapon which you can use to change the world'
(Nelson
Mandela, Picture & Inspirational Quote. Philosophy of Education Portraits) |
Loyalty to Cause:
Gandhi BBQ Apron
'You must be the change you
wish to see in the world'
(Mahatma Mohandas
K. Gandhi, Pictures & Quotes. Art of Living Motivational Wisdom Quote) |
Activist Martin
Luther King Jr BBQ Apron
'We must learn to live
together as brothers or perish together as fools.'
(Famous
Political Activist Martin Luther King Jr on Peace and Harmony amongst Men) |
Positive Thinking
William James BBQ Apron
'The greatest discovery
of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his
attitude.'
(Psychologist William James on
changing how we think / Philosophy of Mind) |
Alexander Graham
Bell BBQ Apron
'Concentrate all your thoughts
upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'
(Alexander Graham Bell, Portrait & Quote. Famous
Science Print) |
Imagination
Thomas Edison BBQ Apron
'To invent, you need
a good imagination and a pile of junk.'
(Thomas
Edison, 1847-1931) |
Alternating
Current: Tesla BBQ Apron
'One day man will connect
his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe .. and the very forces
that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will
rotate his own machinery.'
(Famous Scientist
Nikola Tesla on new Inventions to Transform Humanity) |
Euclid: Math
and Philosophy BBQ Apron
'The laws of nature
are but the mathematical thoughts of God'
(Euclid,
Mathematics / Famous Mathematician's Portraits & Quotes) |
Leibniz Origins
of Calculus BBQ Apron
'The mark of a genuine
idea is that its possibility can be proved ...by conceiving its cause or
...when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.'
(Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher. Portrait & Quote
on Truth. Philosophy Fine Art Prints) |
Mathematics:
Blaise Pascal BBQ Apron
'Men never do evil so
completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
... Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth'
(Blaise
Pascal: Mathematics / Famous Mathematician's Portraits & Quotes) |
Michael Faraday
BBQ Apron
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true
if it be consistent with the laws of nature'
(Michael
Faraday, Portrait Painting & Quote on the Laws of Nature. Science Print) |
Quantum Physics:
Niels Bohr BBQ Apron
'Those who are not shocked
when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood
it.'
(Niels Bohr on the Copenhagen Interpretation
of Quantum Physics' particle wave duality & non-local matter interactions) |
Atomic Bomb:
Oppenheimer BBQ Apron
'If the radiance of a
thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the
splendour of the Mighty One ..'
(Robert Oppenheimer,
quoting the Bhagavad Gita. Atomic Bomb Art Picture) |
Atomic Bomb:
Oppenheimer BBQ Apron
'If the radiance of a
thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the
splendour of the Mighty One ..'
(Robert Oppenheimer,
quoting the Bhagavad Gita. Atomic Bomb Art Picture) |
Ludwig Wittgenstein
BBQ Apron
'Philosophy is a battle against the
bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ... The meaning of
a word is its use in the language'
(Ludwig
Wittgenstein, 20th Century Philosopher. Picture & Philosophy Quotes
on Language & Meaning of Words) |
Existentialist
Jean-Paul Sartre BBQ Apron
'Everything has been
figured out, except how to live'
(Jean Paul
Sartre, Pictures & Quotes. Existentialism Philosophy Art Print) |
Bertrand Russell
BBQ Apron
'War does not determine who is right
- only who is left.'
(Pacifist Philosopher
Bertrand Russell on the futility of War) |
Thomas Hobbes
Truth BBQ Apron
'Hell is Truth Seen too Late'
(Political Philosopher Hobbes on the importance of Truth
to Humanity) |
Nietzsche: Live
Dangerously BBQ Apron
'Believe me! The secret
of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life
is to live dangerously!'
(The wonderful wild
crazy mind of Friedrich Nietzsche on life and passion. One of our favorite
Poster Prints / T-Shirts) |
Truth Existentialist
Kierkegaard BBQ Apron
'The Truth shall set ye
free, but first it shall make ye miserable.'
(Soren
Kierkegaard on the brutality of cold hard truth!) |
Buddhist Religion:
Gift of Truth BBQ Apron
'The Gift of Truth Excels
all other Gifts'
(Buddha Portrait & Quotation
Print) |
Eastern Philosophy:
Buddha BBQ Apron
'Not to do any evil, to cultivate
the good, to purify ones mind, this is the Teaching of the Buddhas.'
(Buddha Quote on Good & Evil) |
Confucius BBQ
Apron
'To learn and from time to time to apply
what one has learned, isn't that a pleasure?'
(Confucius
print on education and learning) |
Music and Plato
BBQ Apron
'Music is a moral law. It gives soul
to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm
and gaiety to life and to everything.'
(Ancient
Greek Philosopher Plato quotation on music, imagination & life) |
Raphael School
of Athens BBQ Apron
'And those whose hearts
are fixed on reality deserve the title of philosophers'
(Famous
Greek Philosopher Plato on Truth and Reality) |
Greek Philosophers:
Aristotle BBQ Apron
'At his best, man is the
noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.'
(Famous Greek Philosopher Aristotle on Morality and
Human Brutality without Law and Order) |
Martin Luther
King Jr BBQ Apron
'Non-violence is a powerful
and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields
it. It is a sword that heals.'
(Pease activist
Martin Luther King Jr on non-violent opposition to injustice) |
USSR Foundation
Lenin BBQ Apron
'Without a revolutionary theory
there cannot be a revolutionary movement.'
(Russian
leader Vladimir Lenin on theoretical foundations of revolution) |
Famous Quote
from JFK BBQ Apron
'And so, my fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.'
(Famous political quote and portrait of John F. Kennedy) |
Feminism Lucretia
Mott BBQ Apron
'We too often bind ourselves
by authorities rather than by the truth.'
(Feminist
Lucretia Mott on custom and truth) |
Famous Writers:
Anais Nin BBQ Apron
'And the day came when the
risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to
blossom.'
(Anais Nin on the liberation of
self. Lovely portrait printed with motivational quote) |
Mary Wollstonecraft
BBQ Apron
'Strengthen the female mind by enlarging
it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.'
(Mary
Wollstonecraft Portrait & Quotation. Big Posters of Famous Women Writers) |
Musician Richard
Wagner BBQ Apron
'I am convinced that there
are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere
and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.'
(Famous
musician & composer Richard Wagner on the subtle connection of mind
and universe) |
Classical Music:
Beethoven BBQ Apron
'Music is the one incorporeal
entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but
which mankind cannot comprehend.'
(Famous
musician & classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven on the power of music) |
Ludwig van Beethoven
BBQ Apron
'Music is a higher revelation than
all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation ... '
(Ludwig van Beethoven, Music Quote & Picture. Famous
Classical Composer & Musician Poster) |
Woman and Child:
Da Vinci BBQ Apron
'Truth and love are the only
things worth living for and the only things worth dying for.'
(Rebecca Ann Talcott quote printed on Leonardo Da Vinci
Art 'Woman and Child') |
Freud Female
Sexuality BBQ Apron
'The great question that
has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, is
'What does a woman want?'
(Sigmund Freud,
Sexuality Quote from the Famous Psychoanalyst. Printed on Erotic Pablo Picasso
Painting) |
Oscar Wilde
Vintage Erotica BBQ Apron
'Bigamy is having
one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'
(Famous
Playwright, Poet & Author Oscar Wilde Quotation printed on Vintage Erotica
Art of Topless Woman.) |
Hamlet Famous
Soliloquy BBQ Apron
'To be, or not to be: that
is the question: ...to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them...'
(William Shakespeare Quotation from the famous play
Hamlet on life & existence) |
Novelist: Emily
Bronte BBQ Apron
'I wish I were out of doors
- I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free ... and laughing
at injuries, not maddening under them!'
(Emily
Bronte quote from Wuthering Heights on the wild and free beauty of Nature) |
Novelist George
Orwell BBQ Apron
'In a time of universal deceit
- telling the truth is a revolutionary act.'
(Author,
political satirist & writer George Orwell quotation on truth and revolution
from his famous book Nineteen Eighty Four, 1984) |
Shakespeare:
Beauty of Juliet BBQ Apron
'Shall I compare
thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: ..'
(William Shakespeare, Quote from Sonnet 18 printed on
Art Painting of Juliet) |
Romantic Writer:
Percy Shelley BBQ Apron
'Government is an evil;
it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary
evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.'
(Romantic Poet Percy Shelley on politics government
and anarchy) |
Poet Edgar Allan
Poe BBQ Apron
'Poetry is the rhythmical creation
of beauty in words. Its sole arbiter is Taste.'
(Romantic
Gothic poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe on good poetry & artistic style) |
Cicero: Philosophy
Religion BBQ Apron
'.. as a philosopher, I have
a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.'
(Roman Philosopher Statesman Cicero on God Religion
Theology) |
It is interesting to see what people search on the internet,
partly out of curiosity, and also to help jog our minds to other ideas / search
terms that might be useful. The following results are from Wordtracker / Overture,
the number of
searches per day is in brackets. Hope it helps, Karene.
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