Lichaam en geest

Supporting a young person who is self-harming feels like a minefield...

Voltaire was a French writer famous for his wit and irony...

The philosophy of Confucius was so powerful that it dominated intellectual life in ancient China for centuries...

Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method of treatment through dialogue...

Jane Austen is one of the most widely read British authors...

Henry David Thoreau is a beloved American author, poet and philosopher...

Sir Francis Bacon had a tremendous impact on science and philosophy during the scientific revolution in XVIIth-century England...

Epictetus was born a slave, and became one of the most influential Stoic philosophers...

Gautama Buddha is also known as Siddharta Gautama, or simply the Buddha, which means "Awakened" or "Enlightened"...

The Scripture is an endless source of inspiration...

Alfred North Whitehead once noted: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato...

Montaigne might well be one of the most sympathetic writers ever known...