PHILOSOPHERS STONED

In the history of the human race nothing has touched our imagination more than the thoughts of the philosophers. They were the muses of kings, helping them to avoid disaster. Guiding them to both triumph and tragedy.  Believing  that their musings would secure kingdoms, for the men and women that  could only see that the future could be  won, with the wisdom of the past. Here are some of the
very best.  

 "No one will have any other desire in heaven than what God wills; and the desire of one will be the desire of all; and the desire of all and of each one will also be the desire of God."  SAINT ANSELM (1100)

"I am I, my circumstance. This expression, which appears in my frist book and which, in the final volume,condenses my philosophical thought, does not only mean the doctrine which my work expounds and proposes,but also that my work is an efffective instance of that same doctrine.  My work is, in essence and presence, circumstantial."  
José Ortega y Gasset (1932)

"If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it; absolute poverty is bad;  there is some poverty we can prevent without sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance; therefore we ought to prevent some absolute poverty."
Pete Singer (1979)

As diverse as all these opinions are they hold one thing in common "TRUTH"!