Age-old Wisdom Lover Mugs

'The 20th century wasn't bad, but I preferred the 19th. I'm open minded for the 21st.'

Sadie, I just heard something disturbing, and I think you're the only one who can tell me whether it's true. Youtube is telling me we've lived 300 years of phantom time. Pope Gregory XIII's math was off when he created our calendar, and this is actually the year 1717. What's more, the "Middle Ages" is just a fiction the pope created to explain his rounding error. You were there, Sadie ... Did King Arthur really exist? I'll tell you all about that nice boy, as soon as I demonstrate how we dealt w

Sharing the Bed with Zeno

Counting dollars

Psychologist is SHOCKED by what his elderly patent is telling him.

The Unknown Philosopher, who first realised life is no picnic.

"Baldo, credit cards are a terrible idea! Take it from someone who has 10 of 'em."

'Psychoanalysis is passé. I suggest we ask for asylum in France.'

Mass Confucian

'Are you our new glue-ru?'

Why don't we invite Hypothesis? It's always a good idea to have an educated guest… Party List. Mesomides. Loxias. Anaximenes. Thales.

'Don't be silly, dear. You don't look a day over one hundred eighty three.'

Hypatia

Old and young

The Ageing Process.

Socrates

'I wish I could be around when you're my age. I'd like to see that fashion statement with an adult diaper showing.'

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates. Sounds like a man who never had a tax return audited.

"When you get to be my age, you start to notice certain patterns in the river of history." "You start to notice, for instance, that the winner always loses." "What's that mean?" "Every great power defines itself as the opposite of its main enemy. Once that enemy is defeated, the great power loses its virtues, its unity... even its identity." "The great power then either creates new enemies, or it fades into history." "(Yawn) Old people talk a lot." "What I'm saying is, you were not my firs

"'Meaning'? Hahahahaha..."

Garbage is a collector's item.

"I tried shutting my mouth and opening my mind, but then I remembered it's better to give than to receive."

'Think about this, Kid...If I knew the meaning of life, would I be spending mine, sitting on the top of a mountain?'

Zeno Gives Directions

"The secret of my long life is coffee....how did you guess?"

"Hypochondria is 100% fatal."

'I don't know what's wrong with me. It's gotten so I can't tell the difference between the Truth and a truism anymore!'

'Is there any way we could ease into these GRADUALLY?'

Philosophy 201: Readings from the works of Descartes, Kant,Spinoza, Plato, Sartre, Yogi Berra & Vince Lombardi.

Fortune Cookies

Ancient Secrets to a Happy Life

Not another PowerPoint!

'I know life is a funny thing, but is it funny ha-ha or funny peculiar?'

'Keep your eye upon the hole -- and not upon the donut.'

Laozi