Pythagoras quote, "No man is free who cannot control himself," shows that real freedom comes from self-control. Being rich or ...

Philosopher Bertrand Russell believed that the way we understand our world fundamentally shapes the way that we live our lives. Thus, an anarchist lives a very different sort of life than, say, an ...

Longevity is one of the greatest treasures any human being can attain. It refers to the body’s ability to live for an extended period, while focusing on much more than lifespan alone. It also includes ...

Pythagoras (570-500 BC) was born on the island of Samos in what is now Greece. On the advice of Thales of Miletus, he travelled to Memphis in Egypt where he came into contact with priests renowned for ...

Most people don’t remember math class, but they do remember Pythagoras. Greek philosopher and mathematician, he is credited with one of the handiest formulae any school student could know: A squared ...

It is well known that Pythagoras – supposedly – came up with the theorem that allows us to calculate the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle from the length of its sides. It is less ...

Philosophy or the love of wisdom was probably coined by Pythagoras. Philosophy or the love of wisdom was probably coined by Pythagoras. It accesses many parts of ourselves: intuition, reasoning, ...

Volume 2 of «Multimedia Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences: Greek Philosophy» (MEPS), an encyclopaedia created by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, with the patronage of UNESCO. The ...