Ancient Wisdom Lover Gifts

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Socrates

Mass Confucian

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

Sharing the Bed with Zeno

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

Archimedes statue with a lever

Playdough's The Republic

"Aristophanes explains comedy"

'These sure rule out a lot of options....'

'Of course, this social contract will have to remain hypothical until someone invents writing.'

PHARMACY, 'Tell Hippocrates to write his prescriptions in Greek -- I can't read Babylonian!'

Down With Wikipedia

'He was a Stoic's Stoic.'

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

"Thousands of years from now, men will marvel at this and wonder how we did it."

"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.'

Orpheus and Eurydice

Hypatia

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

Greek Mathematics. Archimedes. Euclid. Pythagoras. The ancient Greeks didn't have a symbol for zero? The left "nothing" to the imagination.

"Hunters turned philosophers"

'Socrates, you've been drinking again.'

Galileo vs Aristotle

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

"Is this going to be on the midterm?"

Stoics vs. Epicureans.

Homer

'You're too wrapped up in yourself.'

Ten Commandments T-Shirt

John Wycliffe

"NOW you call on the Vastu consultant?"

'Just think of me as your life coach.'

"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