Philosopher Cards

Description: Design with quote for the contemporary Stoic. Stoicism is school of thought that flourished in Ancient Greece and Roman Empire. It was one of the loftiest and most sublime philosophies in the record of Western civilization. Stoics urge participation in human affairs, believing that the goal of all inquiry is to provide a kind of conduct characterized by peace of mind and strong moral principles Contemporary Stoicism refers to currents in culture from the 20th century and later reviving elements of Stoicism. It he term "contemporary Stoicism" covers both the revival of interest in Stoic philosophy and the philosophical efforts to adjust ancient Stoicism to the conceptual frameworks of the present.

Description: Who needs a weighted blanket when you’ve got...

Description: Who can argue with this saying?

Description: A portrait of Jean-Paul Sartre

Description: Victor Hugo portrait and quote: No army can stop an idea whose time has come.

Description: To understand is to be free.

Description: Known for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism, Simone de Beauvoir was a French author who had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

Description: Famous quote from French philosopher François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), also known as Voltaire. "Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde est en droit de vous rendre injuste" can be translated as "Certainly, whoever has the right to make you absurd has the right to make you unjust" or "whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".

Description: James Baldwin quote

Description: Cogito Ergo Sum is a famous Latin proposition meaning “I Think, Therefore I Am” coined by the French modern philosopher Rene Descartes. Features the popular, philosophical Latin phrase/dictum in both Latin and English written in elegant text. Cool gift idea for fans of Descartes, teachers/students of western philosophy, and fans of the Latin language.

Description: if you're a tinker, logician or works at any field of science - or know someone who is- this fun joke is for you

Description: Cogito, Ergo Sum - "I think, therefore I am."

Description: “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

Description: François-Marie Arouet: "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere

Description: A design for philosophy lovers.

Description: Henry David Thoreau quote: Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes

Description: Diogenes, also known as Diogenes the Cynic, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea. He was banished from Sinope when he took to debasement of currency. After being exiled, he moved to Athens and criticized many cultural conventions of the city. He used his simple lifestyle to criticize the social values and institutions of what he saw as a corrupt, confused society. He was captured by pirates and sold into slavery, eventually settling in Corinth. There he passed his philosophy of Cynicism to Crates, who taught it to Zeno of Citium, who fashioned it into the school of Stoicism, one of the most enduring schools of Greek philosophy. (Wikipedia)

Description: Arthur Schopenhauer, the depressed German philosopher, cheers himself up with a lovely pink doughnut. As we all know, a doughnut can cure even severe cases of Weltschmerz - best to have some on hand.

Description: EXISTENCE IS QUESTIONABLE COFFEE IS NOT ABSURDISM PHILOSOPHY SHIRT TEE

Description: Dante Alighieri quote: Life brings no greater grief Than happiness remembered in a time Of sorrow

Description: Spread the wisdom of Stoicism with this cool image featuring a meditating face of ancient Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius with one of his inspirational quotes.

Description: Slavoj Žižek / Danzig metal band album cover parody mash-up design to pay tribute to Slovenian philosopher’s early punk rock dissident background years in Ljubljana.

Description: I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Description: Word "Stoicism" and how to pronounce it

Description: Celebrate individuality with our exclusive Camus merchandise featuring a glitched image of the famous philosopher and the iconic quote "I rebel, therefore I exist". Embrace the spirit of nonconformity and make a bold statement with our unique designs. Get yours today and stand out from the crowd. Original design by Blacklinesw9.

Description: A lone samurai frog philosopher smoking on a rock. Bushido is spelled in kanji.

Description: owl with a sartre quote: l'enfer, c'est les autres

Description: Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor during the second century. He was a philosopher king, considered one of the most important Stoic thinkers. His private writing were recorded in a collection called the Meditations.

Description: Marx's theories about society, economics and politics—collectively understood as Marxism—hold that human societies develop through class struggle. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labour power in return for wages.[17] Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx predicted that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system: socialism. For Marx, class antagonisms under capitalism, owing in part to its instability an...

Description: A monochrome portrait of Albert Camus with dark coloured text for products with a light background reading "life is absurd!"

Description: Albert Camus face and quote: The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Description: Albert Camus inspired design.

Description: Be reminded that it is important to examine one's own life with that famous saying "Know Thyself" from ancient Greece. Features the quote in the original Greek writing faintly in the background.

Description: Bertrand Russell portrait and quote: The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Description: With this image, we celebrate French philosopher, activist and mystic Simone Weil.