Confucian Classic Lover Pillows

Wang Yangming listens.

'He who laughs last probably doesn't get it.'

"Smile when you say that, pardner."

"Hey! If you're here to marvel at the smallness of your existence within a glorious, vast and unknowable universe, there's a line!"

Archimedes helps Sisyphus

Eurydice is bitten by a snake

Primitive magician

"It's a long way to Enlightenment. You might need some cash."

"Can you juggle a household, three kids, and a career?"

Corporate departments as a metaphor for growing up.

'Why can't we just kick Caesar upstairs?'

'Et tu Yakamoto?'

"All a cat CAN do is strive for authenticity."

"Moulting"

"Hello - I'm from the future..."

Conference on the Control of Time and Space. Left to Right: Isaac Newton, Aristotle, HG Wells, Ptolemy,Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Galileo, Copernicus.

Scurile travels

'Isn't that wonderful? We both suffer from intellectual angst!'

Quentin Tarantino

“Just one question...how on earth do I get down?!?”

"I'm searching for a happy medium between sitting on a mountain top and eating cheese fries."

"Today's sermon will be followed immediately by a rebuttal from the opposition."

'I'm worried about this new brain of scarecrows...'

'The Meaning of Life? -- you don't have a bad ticker, do you?'

"I'm not really into organized religion, though I am very spiritual."

'Have you been working out?'

Dante's Undiscovered Prequels

Professor McWit, crushed by an avalanche of Philosophy 101 texts, proves again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

'This snuff video you sold me just shows people taking snuff.'

"I'm sorry, sir, but Dostoyevsky is not considered summer reading. I'll have to ask you to come with me."

"I'm taking you off sleeping pills and putting you on Proust."

The sad case of the blind-men and the elephant.

"If Marcus Aurelius himself were standing here today, I'm sure he would agree this suit reflects perfectly your stoic sensibilities."

"Look, you asked me what my favorite book was and it just happens to be A Farewell to Arms."

Seneca