Philosopher Pins and Buttons

Description: Hello I'm Filled With Existential Dread

Description: Portrait of James Baldwin smoking and quote: Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.

Description: My original watercolour designs decorating a call to independent thought and constant re-evaluation… (...just a little reminder to myself, really...!)

Description: Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, activist, and political writer. You should read what he writes. One thing he said was "It's ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations..."

Description: One of my favorite bill hicks quotes , hope you like the style of it :)

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: If it is pleasing to observe in nature her desire to paint God in all his works, in which we see some traces of him because they are his images, how much more just is it to consider in the productions of minds the efforts which they make to imitate the essential truth, even in shunning it, and to remark wherein they attain it and wherein they wander from it, as I have endeavored to do in this study.

Description: Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. "The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong,"

Description: it's just a cigarette

Description: René Descartes portrait and quote: In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Description: Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Ephesus. If you love ancient classical Greek philosophy and culture, then this motivational inspiring Greek philosophy quote design is for you! Cool gift for philosophy student and liberal arts major.

Description: James Baldwin portrait and quote: I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Description: James Baldwin portrait and quote: The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Description: It's a bird? It's a plane? Or is a...philosopher?

Description: Meditate.

Description: Inspired by a Zizek anecdote based on a scene from a Lubitsch film Ninotchka.

Description: “Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.” ― Michel Foucault

Description: Alexander the Great

Description: Sisyphus Tarot Card

Description: Diogenes was trying to find an honest man by shining his lantern at people's faces smelling like old dog. Not the best tactic, but having this cool design definitely sounds like a better idea.

Description: Stoicism is a school of ancient philosophy founded in Greece and popularized in Rome. The most renown stoic writers are Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Zeno. In a nutshell, stoicism teaches a person to rid themselves of being dependent and influenced by external conditions, such as wealth, people, challenges, and obstacles. Stoicism is the most antifragile mental operating system for life because it frees you from having to worry about what could happen to you because of not giving a shit about the useless things that don't really matter in life.

Description: Sisyphus Tarot Card

Description: Albert Camus quote: "It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."

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 can argue with this saying?

Description: Nietzsche's Hammer

Description: Stoic quote by Ancient Roman Caesar Marcus Aurelius for all who wish to improve, and remain calm in adversity. Stoicism is not just a philosophy. Stoicism is a mindset for success. Embrace the ancient wisdom of the philosopher king Marcus Aurelius.

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

Description: A portrait of Jean-Paul Sartre

Description: “I would prefer not to.” The famous line uttered by Herman Melville's enigmatic character, Bartleby, in the short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Short Story of Wall Street."

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: James Baldwin portrait

Description: James Baldwin portrait and quote: The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it

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: James Baldwin quote