4th December is the birthday of the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle. He is famous for his “Great Man Theory” which states that the history of the world is but the biography of great men. In…
30th November is the birthday of the American writer extraordinaire Mark Twain. His novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are the most celebrated works of modern American…
28th November is the birthday of the English poet and painter William Blake. Born in 1757, Blake lived during the Romantic Era when individualism, emotions and love for nature were elevated in art, music and…
24th November is the birthday of the American writer & speaker Dale Carnegie famous for his two bestsellers How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1942). Born in…
21th November is the birthday of the 18th century French writer and philosopher Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet). A luminary of the Enlightenment Era, Voltaire’s work has been phenomenally influential for over 300 years. He has influenced…
There have been thinkers like Immanuel Kant, Schiller, Hegel, who say: If there is no God He has to be invented, because without God man will lose all significance. And they are also right: even…
07th November is the birthday of the revolutionary French philosopher Albert Camus. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, Camus became the second youngest awardee in history after Rudyard Kipling who…
One man, a great contemporary, G.E. Moore, has written a book, Principia Ethica. And perhaps he is the only man in the whole of history, who has thought so deeply just to define the word…