The Metaphysical Store - Philosophy Part 5

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	The Echo of Greece Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention, apart from the great men it produced, it is the prelude to the end of Greece. The events that took place in the ancient world may, by human nature, be repeated in the modern world. *» More Info*
	The Nichomachean Ethics In The Nichomachean Ethics, named for their first editor, Aristotles son Nicomachus, Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man: the life of happiness. *» More Info*
	The Republic In The Republic, Plato tackles the big issues of the state and the individual: how the state should be ruled, and by whom; and the way the individual should lead his life - and why. *» More Info*
	The Trial and Death of Socrates The Trial and the Death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history. *» More Info*

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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-- Albert Einstein

"Come forth into the Light of things. Let Nature be your teacher."
-- William Wordsworth

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain and our heart is our temple. The philosophy is kindness."
-- Dalai Lama

"There is only one good...knowledge. There is only one evil... ignorance."
-- The Death of Socrates

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
-- Aristotle

"If we only do what is required of us, we are slaves. The moment we do more, we are free."
-- Cicero

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-- Albert Einstein

"If any man wish to write in a clear style let him be first clear in his thought and if any would write in a noble style let him first posess a noble soul."
-- Goethe

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei