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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!

PS - You are currently at the shop pages on our Philosophy website - Individual Product links go to our Philosophy Shop at Cafepress where you can purchase them.

Chef's Apron: Custom Barbecue (BBQ) & Kitchen Aprons

Keep clean in the kitchen or be a cool chef at the Barbecue (BBQ) with one of our custom printed BBQ Aprons. Our mid-length Chef's Aprons tie at neck and waist and have two center-stitched bottom compartment pouches for keeping tools and recipes handy. Made of 35% Cotton / 65% polyester blend, our BBQ / Kitchen Aprons are machine washable.

We have a total of about 500 unique (custom made) Barbecue (BBQ) Aprons with an eclectic mix of philosophy quotes and images (paintings, portraits, photos).

We hope you find our Kitchen / BBQ Aprons interesting, fun and useful! Cheers!

Below you will find our favourite Chef's Aprons selected from each of our main Philosophy Gift Shop subject categories.



Philosophy / Nature: Thoreau BBQ Apron
Philosophy / Nature: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience: BBQ Apron
'If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.'
(Transcendental philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau on Civil Disobedience)

Henry David Thoreau BBQ Apron
Henry David Thoreau BBQ Apron
'Simplify, Simplify. ... Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth'
(Henry Thoreau, Art Portrait & Philosophy of Nature Quote Custom Prints)

Charles Darwin: Evolution BBQ Apron
Charles Darwin: Evolution BBQ Apron
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection'
(Charles Darwin, Pictures & Quotes. Science of Evolution / Nature)

Michel de Montaigne Education BBQ Apron
Michel de Montaigne Education BBQ Apron
'Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?'
(Philosopher Michel de Montaigne on the Importance of Philosophy for Life)

Christianity: Truth / Myth BBQ Apron
Christianity: Truth / Myth BBQ Apron
'There was only one true Christian, and he died on the cross'
(Friedrich Nietzsche on Christianity, famous atheist philosopher who wrote 'God is Dead')

Education Nelson Mandela BBQ Apron
Education Nelson Mandela BBQ Apron
'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world'
(Nelson Mandela, Picture & Inspirational Quote. Philosophy of Education Portraits)

Loyalty to Cause: Gandhi BBQ Apron
Loyalty to Cause: Gandhi BBQ Apron
'You must be the change you wish to see in the world'
(Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi, Pictures & Quotes. Art of Living Motivational Wisdom Quote)

Activist Martin Luther King Jr BBQ Apron
Activist Martin Luther King Jr BBQ Apron
'We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.'
(Famous Political Activist Martin Luther King Jr on Peace and Harmony amongst Men)

Positive Thinking William James BBQ Apron
Positive Thinking William James BBQ Apron
'The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.'
(Psychologist William James on changing how we think / Philosophy of Mind)

Alexander Graham Bell BBQ Apron
Alexander Graham Bell BBQ Apron
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'
(Alexander Graham Bell, Portrait & Quote. Famous Science Print)

Imagination Thomas Edison BBQ Apron
Imagination Thomas Edison BBQ Apron
'To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.'
(Thomas Edison, 1847-1931)

Alternating Current: Tesla BBQ Apron
Alternating Current: Tesla BBQ Apron
'One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe .. and the very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.'
(Famous Scientist Nikola Tesla on new Inventions to Transform Humanity)

Euclid: Math and Philosophy BBQ Apron
Euclid: Math and Philosophy BBQ Apron
'The laws of Nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God'
(Euclid, Mathematics / Famous Mathematician's Portraits & Quotes)

Leibniz Origins of Calculus BBQ Apron
Leibniz Origins of Calculus BBQ Apron
'The mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved ...by conceiving its cause or ...when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.'
(Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher. Portrait & Quote on Truth. Philosophy Fine Art Prints)

Mathematics: Blaise Pascal BBQ Apron
Mathematics: Blaise Pascal BBQ Apron
'Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ... Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth'
(Blaise Pascal: Mathematics / Famous Mathematician's Portraits & Quotes)

Michael Faraday BBQ Apron
Michael Faraday BBQ Apron
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of Nature'
(Michael Faraday, Portrait Painting & Quote on the laws of Nature. Science Print)

Quantum Physics: Niels Bohr BBQ Apron
Quantum Physics: Niels Bohr BBQ Apron
'Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.'
(Niels Bohr on the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics' particle wave duality & non-local matter interactions)

Atomic Bomb: Oppenheimer BBQ Apron
Atomic Bomb: Oppenheimer BBQ Apron
'If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One ..'
(Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita. Atomic Bomb Art Picture)

Atomic Bomb: Oppenheimer BBQ Apron
Atomic Bomb: Oppenheimer BBQ Apron
'If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One ..'
(Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita. Atomic Bomb Art Picture)

Ludwig Wittgenstein BBQ Apron
Ludwig Wittgenstein BBQ Apron
'Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ... The meaning of a word is its use in the language'
(Ludwig Wittgenstein, 20th Century Philosopher. Picture & Philosophy Quotes on Language & Meaning of Words)

Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre BBQ Apron
Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre BBQ Apron
'Everything has been figured out, except how to live'
(Jean Paul Sartre, Pictures & Quotes. Existentialism Philosophy Art Print)

Bertrand Russell BBQ Apron
Bertrand Russell BBQ Apron
'War does not determine who is right - only who is left.'
(Pacifist Philosopher Bertrand Russell on the futility of War)

Thomas Hobbes Truth BBQ Apron
Thomas Hobbes Truth BBQ Apron
'Hell is Truth Seen too Late'
(Political Philosopher Hobbes on the importance of Truth to Humanity)

Nietzsche: Live Dangerously BBQ Apron
Nietzsche: Live Dangerously BBQ Apron
'Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!'
(The wonderful wild crazy mind of Friedrich Nietzsche on life and passion. One of our favorite Poster Prints / T-Shirts)

Truth Existentialist Kierkegaard BBQ Apron
Truth Existentialist Kierkegaard BBQ Apron
'The Truth shall set ye free, but first it shall make ye miserable.'
(Soren Kierkegaard on the brutality of cold hard truth!)

Buddhist Religion: Gift of Truth BBQ Apron
Buddhist Religion: Gift of Truth BBQ Apron
'The Gift of Truth Excels all other Gifts'
(Buddha Portrait & Quotation Print)

Eastern Philosophy: Buddha BBQ Apron
Eastern Philosophy: Buddha BBQ Apron
'Not to do any evil, to cultivate the good, to purify ones mind, this is the Teaching of the Buddhas.'
(Buddha Quote on Good & Evil)

Confucius BBQ Apron
Confucius BBQ Apron
'To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned, isn't that a pleasure?'
(Confucius print on education and learning)

Music and Plato BBQ Apron
Music and Plato BBQ Apron
'Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.'
(Ancient Greek Philosopher Plato quotation on music, imagination & life)

Raphael School of Athens BBQ Apron
Raphael School of Athens BBQ Apron
'And those whose hearts are fixed on reality deserve the title of philosophers'
(Famous Greek Philosopher Plato on Truth and Reality)

Greek Philosophers: Aristotle BBQ Apron
Greek Philosophers: Aristotle BBQ Apron
'At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.'
(Famous Greek Philosopher Aristotle on Morality and Human Brutality without Law and Order)

Martin Luther King Jr BBQ Apron
Martin Luther King Jr BBQ Apron
'Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.'
(Pease activist Martin Luther King Jr on non-violent opposition to injustice)

USSR Foundation Lenin BBQ Apron
USSR Foundation Lenin BBQ Apron
'Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.'
(Russian leader Vladimir Lenin on theoretical foundations of revolution)

Famous Quote from JFK BBQ Apron
Famous Quote from JFK BBQ Apron
'And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.'
(Famous political quote and portrait of John F. Kennedy)

Feminism Lucretia Mott BBQ Apron
Feminism Lucretia Mott BBQ Apron
'We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.'
(Feminist Lucretia Mott on custom and truth)
 

Mary Wollstonecraft BBQ Apron
Mary Wollstonecraft BBQ Apron
'Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.'
(Mary Wollstonecraft Portrait & Quotation. Big Posters of Famous Women Writers)

Musician Richard Wagner BBQ Apron
Musician Richard Wagner BBQ Apron
'I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.'
(Famous musician & composer Richard Wagner on the subtle connection of mind and universe)

Classical Music: Beethoven BBQ Apron
Classical Music: Beethoven BBQ Apron
'Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.'
(Famous musician & classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven on the power of music)

Ludwig van Beethoven BBQ Apron
Ludwig van Beethoven BBQ Apron
'Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation ... '
(Ludwig van Beethoven, Music Quote & Picture. Famous Classical Composer & Musician Poster)

Woman and Child: Da Vinci BBQ Apron
Woman and Child: Da Vinci BBQ Apron
'Truth and love are the only things worth living for and the only things worth dying for.'
(Rebecca Ann Talcott quote printed on Leonardo Da Vinci Art 'Woman and Child')

Freud Female Sexuality BBQ Apron
Freud Female Sexuality BBQ Apron
'The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, is 'What does a woman want?'
(Sigmund Freud, Sexuality Quote from the Famous Psychoanalyst. Printed on Erotic Pablo Picasso Painting)

Oscar Wilde Vintage Erotica BBQ Apron
Oscar Wilde Vintage Erotica BBQ Apron
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'
(Famous Playwright, Poet & Author Oscar Wilde Quotation printed on Vintage Erotica Art of Topless Woman.)

Hamlet Famous Soliloquy BBQ Apron
Hamlet Famous Soliloquy BBQ Apron
'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...'
(William Shakespeare Quotation from the famous play Hamlet on life & existence)

Novelist: Emily Bronte BBQ Apron
Novelist: Emily Bronte BBQ Apron
'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 quote from Wuthering Heights on the wild and free beauty of Nature)

Novelist George Orwell BBQ Apron
Novelist George Orwell BBQ Apron
'In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.'
(Author, political satirist & writer George Orwell quotation on truth and revolution from his famous book Nineteen Eighty Four, 1984)

Shakespeare: Beauty of Juliet BBQ Apron
Shakespeare: Beauty of Juliet BBQ Apron
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: ..'
(William Shakespeare, Quote from Sonnet 18 printed on Art Painting of Juliet)

Romantic Writer: Percy Shelley BBQ Apron
Romantic Writer: Percy Shelley BBQ Apron
'Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.'
(Romantic Poet Percy Shelley on politics government and anarchy)

Poet Edgar Allan Poe BBQ Apron
Poet Edgar Allan Poe BBQ Apron
'Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Its sole arbiter is Taste.'
(Romantic Gothic poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe on good poetry & artistic style)


Cicero: Philosophy Religion BBQ Apron
Cicero: Philosophy Religion BBQ Apron
'.. as a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.'
(Roman Philosopher Statesman Cicero on God Religion Theology)

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