Wisdom of the Great

The American Nation Leader

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803–1882) –the American writer and philosopher, public person, one of the most significant notionalists of the USA. In 1821, he graduated from Harvard where he had got theological education. Some of his poems – Brahma,…

“Suspended” Coffee from Tonino Guerra

Tonino Guerra (1920 -2012) — an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter. The author of more than a hundred of movies, many of which belong to the golden fund of the world cinema: Marriage Italian-Style, Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, Amarcord, And the…

Mahatma Gandhi. Wisdom and Philosophy

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) — one of the leaders and ideologist of the national liberation movement of India. His philosophy of non-violence Satyagraha had an impact on national and international movements of those who supported peaceful changes.…

Jorge Bucay’s Proverbs

Today in ‘Wisdom of the Great’ column we would like to introduce to our readers the star of modern Argentine literature, famous psychologist and psychotherapist, Jorge Bucay. His books have been translated into 18 languages of the world; the…

10 Wise Sayings by Albert Einstein

Today we want to remember an interesting person, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics, a laureate of Nobel Prize in1921, Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Definitely most of us remember his photo with tongue put out, old man Albert had a…

Abai’s Word

Abai Qunanbayev (1845-1904) was a great Kazakh enlightener, poet, classic and composer. Abai played a great part in creation of literary Kazakh language and left uneclipsed, artistic heritage. In The Book of Words the philosopher ponds over about…

conversation of a rich man with the Prophet about charity

Gibran Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) – a famous Lebanese-American philosopher, artist, poet and writer of the XX century. He was born in Bsharri, wherefrom he, at the age of 12, with his mother and sisters immigrated to the USA. The Prophet (1923),…

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Commandments of Mother Teresa

We will begin the series from publication of the Commandments of Mother Teresa (1910-1997), a catholic nun who dedicated all her life to creation of schools, shelters, hospitals for poor and seriously ill children and grown-up people…