Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher.
He was born on December 27, 1571, in Germany. Since early childhood Kepler was interested in astronomy.
He made many important things for science.
Johannes Kepler died on November 15, 1630, in Germany.
Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian scientist, artist, writer, philosopher, and architect.
He was born on February 14, 1404, in Genoa, Italy.
Alberti's movement was in Italian Renaissance.
He had his own notable works.
Leon Battista Alberti died on April 25, 1472, in Rome, Italy.
Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος) (Atlantìs nêsos) means 'island of Atlas'. This place was called after the Titan (Τιτᾶνες) (Titán) Atlas (Ἄτλας) (Átlās).
Atlantis was a fictional island country. There are many different myths and legends about this island.
Scientists in different periods of history wrote about Atlantis. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato (Πλάτων) (Plátōn) was one of them.
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Leon Battista Alberti.
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“Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.”
“Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.”
“The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.”
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https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/leon-battista-alberti-quotes
Parmenides of Elea (Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης) an Ancient Greek philosopher. He was born in Elea, Magna Graecia.
Being was his philosophy idea.
Parmenides influenced other philosophers.
Parmenides.
“We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.”
“To be and to have meaning are the same.”
“Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals have given, believing them to be true”
Source of information:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/357208.Parmenides
Giordano Bruno was an Italian scientist and philosopher. He was born in 1548, in Italy.
Bruno’s era was Renaissance.
He studied space and our Solar System.
Giordano Bruno died on February 17, 1600, in Rome.
Arthur Schopenhauer was known as a German philosopher. He was born on February 22, 1788, in Gdańsk, Poland. His parents were Heinrich Floris and Johanna Schopenhauer.
Arthur Schopenhauer studied in several universities.
He was interested in ethics, psychology, morality, metaphysics, and aesthetics.
Schopenhauer had his own ideas.
He died on September 21, 1860, in Frankfurt, Germany.
Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Jewish origin. He was born on November 24, 1632, in Amsterdam.
Spinoza’s
parents were Miguel Spinoza and Ana Débora.
His
interests were metaphysics, Hebrew Bible, and ethics.
Baruch
Spinoza had an education. He studied in Talmud Torah of Amsterdam and
University of Leiden.
Also,
Spinoza had his own ideas, such as: Spinozism, Spinoza’s theory of the
emotions, Spinozistic ethics, and etc.
He died on
February 21, 1677, in The Hague.
Immanuel Kant.
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“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11038.Immanuel_Kant
Arthur Schopenhauer.
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“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11682.Arthur_Schopenhauer
Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher, writer, scientist, and inventor. He was born on June 19, 1623. His parents were Étienne Pascal and Antoinette Begon.
Pascal was interested in mathematics, physics, and western philosophy. He had his own notable ideas.
Blaise Pascal influenced other philosophers.
He died on August 19, 1662.
Baruch Spinoza.
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“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”
“There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.”
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/122092.Baruch_Spinoza
Blaise Pascal.
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“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
“Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
“To understand is to forgive.”
“The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”
Source of information:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10994.Blaise_Pascal and https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10994.Blaise_Pascal?page=2
