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Karene Jade Howie - Student of Philosophy and overworked shop keeper!Hello and welcome to the Philosophy Shop.

We really like philosophers and other creative thinkers of Human history - the Philosophy Shop represents several years work collecting over 500 quotes and portraits from many of the greatest minds of the past 3,000 years. Over the past 5 years the Philosophy Gift Shop has been one of the most popular shops at Cafepress - out of roughly 6 million shops! (Cafepress are a print on demand online shop and top 1000 website. They sell products world wide and have a full 30 day refund, making it a safe place to buy some very cool gifts for yourself and your friends.)

We hope you enjoy browsing our unique collection of photos & paintings with their eclectic mix of profound and engaging quotes.

Cheers!

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Literature / Books: Famous Writers / Authors Portraits & Quotes

Oscar Wilde: Famous Writer Portrait and QuoteWe have a unique gallery of portraits and quotes from some Famous Authors / Writers (Emily & Charlotte Bronte, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde). We hope you find our selection of famous Writers & Literature interesting and useful. I greatly enjoy reading classic literature and will be adding more authors over time. Cheers!

Below you will find our Literature / Books / Famous Writers Philosophy Shop Gallery. Please click on the picture to see the Fine Art Print and Quote printed on the following products;




Political Dystopia: Orwell 1984 Big Brother
Political Dystopia: Orwell 1984 Big Brother
'Big Brother is watching you.'


George Orwell: Allegory / Animal Farm
George Orwell: Allegory / Animal Farm
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'


George Orwell social Comment: Revolution & Truth
George Orwell Social Comment: Revolution & Truth
'In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.'


Novelist George Orwell: Politics / Language
Novelist George Orwell: Politics / Language
'Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.'


Political satire: George Orwell's Animal Farm
Political Satire: George Orwell's Animal Farm
'Four legs good, two legs bad.'


Orwell: Totalitarian Mechanism of Thought Control
Orwell: Totalitarian Mechanism of Thought Control
'But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.'


Aldous Huxley: Genius Child Enthusiasm
Aldous Huxley: Genius Child Enthusiasm
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'


History of Mankind: Aldous Huxley
History of Mankind: Aldous Huxley
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'


Humanist Writer Aldous Huxley on War & Murder
Humanist Writer Aldous Huxley on War & Murder
'What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.'


Famous Poet Playwright Oscar Wilde: Genius
Famous Poet Playwright Oscar Wilde: Genius
'I have nothing to declare except my genius.'


Female Novelists: Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Female Novelists: Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
'I wish I were out of doors - I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free ... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them!'
(Emily Bronte, 1818 - 1848)


Mystic Thinking: Edgar Allan Poe on Dreams
Mystic Thinking: Edgar Allan Poe on Dreams
'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.'


Gothic Fiction: Edgar Allan Poe The Raven
Gothic Fiction: Edgar Allan Poe The Raven
'And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.' (The Raven)


Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
'... the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.'


English Novelist Mary Shelley on Feminism
English Novelist Mary Shelley on Feminism
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.'


Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Modern Prometheus
'It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, ... I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.'


British Romantic Writer Percy Shelley on War
British Romantic Writer Percy Shelley on War
'Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.'


Enlightenment Philosopher: Voltaire Moderation
Enlightenment Philosopher: Voltaire Moderation
'Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.'


French Philosopher Author Voltaire: Love Truth
French Philosopher Author Voltaire: Love Truth
'Love truth, but pardon error.'


Shakespeare's Tragedy Hamlet: Horatio, Philosophy
Shakespeare's Tragedy Hamlet: Horatio, Philosophy
'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' (Hamlet)


To Be or Not To Be: Shakespeare's Hamlet
To Be or Not To Be: Shakespeare's Hamlet
'To be, or not to be: that is the question: ...to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? ...'


Famous Tragedy: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Famous Tragedy: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
'But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, ...' (Romeo and Juliet)


William Shakespeare Tragedy and Comedy: Henry VI
William Shakespeare Tragedy and Comedy: Henry VI
'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.' (Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, scene II)


William Shakespeare: All the Worlds a stage
William Shakespeare: All the Worlds a Stage
'All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.'


William Shakespeare Quote: What's in a Name?
William Shakespeare Quote: What's in a Name?
'What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.' (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1564 - 1616)


Saint Thomas More: Utopia, God servant
Saint Thomas More: Utopia, God servant
'I die the king's good servant, but God's first'. (Last words of Thomas More. His head was displayed on London Bridge for a month, then retrieved by his daughter.)

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