Mark Twain once stated, “The two most interesting characters of the nineteenth-century are Napoleon and Helen Keller.” Unaffected by her own deafness and blindness, Helen Keller, born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, presented a...
The American romantic comedy film Forrest Gump came out in 1994 and went on to become an international classic – not just due to the impeccable acting and great storytelling but also the tiny...
Thomas Lanier Williams III (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi, of English, Welsh, and Huguenot ancestry. He adopted “Tennessee Williams” as his professional name around 1939 and kicked off his career with the 1940s...
Kurt Cobain had a brief career as the frontman of Nirvana, yet still remains, several decades after his tragic death, one of the most celebrated musicians of all time. As a tribute to this...
Robert Nesta Marley is a timeless artist whose songs touch the essence of the human heart and soul and have been recognized accordingly. As a recording artist, Bob Marley sold more than 20 million...
The 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is widely regarded as one of the greatest leaders in American history. Holding the distinction of being one of the most influential statesmen and writers...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day – also known as King Day and MLK Day, among others – is a federal holiday observed in the United States to celebrate the life and the brilliant legacy...
Winston Churchill, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II, was one of the most-important men in the world during that history-changing time. He also holds the distinction of...
Eleanor Roosevelt set the standard of American First Ladies being involved in social issues, even remaining in politics and human rights long after Theodore Roosevelt’s death. Below we have featured Mrs. Roosevelt’s most famous...
In this post, we shall take a trip down memory lane to 18th century France to feed off the thoughts of one of the most admired philosophers of the Enlightenment era – Voltaire. Born...
Khalil Gibran, also spelled Kahlil, was a Lebanese-American writer, essayist, philosopher, poet, painter and visual artist. He was born on January 6, 1883, into a Maronite Catholic family from the historical town of Bsharri...
Robert Frost (born March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts) came to fame for his depictions of rural life in New England. His wide variety of themes and the...
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet and philosopher who lived during 19th century. Emerson had a powerful voice that gave faith to America during the Civil war years. His ideas, greatly influenced by...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, India, and he was later trained in law at the Inner Temple, London. Gandhi first...
Marguerite Annie Johnson (1928 – 2014) was born in St. Louis, Missouri and was nicknamed “Maya” (derived from “My” or “Mya Sister”) by her older brother. When she was eight years old, Angelou was...
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (1903 – 1977), known professionally as Anaïs Nin, was an American diarist, novelist, essayist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Although Nin spent some...
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821 – 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends,...
Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and — in one work — humorist of the Silver Age of Latin literature....
Paulo Coelho de Souza (born 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and the recipient of numerous international awards. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist...
Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum (1905 – 1982) was a controversial Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She completed her education in Russia and moved to the United States in 1926. After two...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) was a German philosopher, composer, poet, cultural critic, philologist, and Greek and Latin scholar. His writings on truth, morality, language, aesthetics, cultural theory, history, nihilism, power, consciousness, and...
Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.E.) was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece. He was a student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens....
Carl Gustav Jung was one of the creators of modern depth psychology, which seeks to facilitate a conversation with the unconscious energies which move through each of us. His work has been influential not...
Sigmund Freud is considered to be the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. He managed to explored the human mind more thoroughly than...
Along with several other important thinkers, Baruch Spinoza laid the principles of the Enlightenment and of the contemporary ideas regarding the state and democracy. Without losing his spirituality, this 17th century Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese...
Isaac Asimov, an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, wrote hard science fiction and was considered one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers during his lifetime. Along with such figures as...
Oscar Wilde was not a person that would accept to go unnoticed. The works of this Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet made a lasting impression and the way he treated the topics of...
We couldn’t help compiling Søren Kierkegaard’s famous quotes when we realized what an impact he has had on several thinkers worldwide. The Danish born philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author, widely considered...
Rumi, one of the most quotable poets that ever walked on Earth, has dedicated a lot of his poems and prose to the subject of Love. His spiritual, yet so human, approach on the...
Many would argue that Albert Einstein influenced the world we live in today mainly by coming up with his famous E=mc² equation, a formula referring to his theory of relativity. Although you might have...