Quest2ReasonClimb the mountain, sharpen your mind.

Free daily philosophy

Think better in five minutes a day.

Quest2Reason is a short daily climb up the Mountain of Reason. Read one idea, answer two quick questions and move up the path through 55 schools of philosophy, from Plato and Confucius to Beauvoir and Ubuntu. It is free and needs no account.

Begin your quest → Try one question first Browse the ideas

  • 365 lessons, one a day for a year, in 5 stages
  • 55 schools of thought
  • 4 minutes a lesson, questions included
The Mountain of Reason: a winding path up to a glowing tree at the summit.

How it works

  1. ReadOne short idea from a school of thought, in plain language.
  2. AnswerTwo quick questions that check you have it. A miss is fine: you see why, then try another.
  3. ClimbAfter your first lesson, choose a philosopher as your quest companion to climb with you. Keep a streak, earn shields that cover a missed day, and revisit what you finished.

Choose who climbs with you

Gargi Vachaknavi Laozi Confucius Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha Socrates Mozi (Mo Di)

See every philosopher

A glimpse of the ideas

The PresocraticsThe first Greek arguments about nature: all things change, nothing comes from nothing, and change has to be explained.
MarxismLook at how work is owned and organized, notice how it can estrange people and ask whose interests a society’s common sense serves.
ExistentialismWe are not born with a fixed purpose; we make ourselves through our choices.

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Line of the day

“Listen to this reed how it complains: it is telling a tale of separations.”

— Jalal al-Din Rumi, Masnavi, book 1, line 1, trans. R. A. Nicholson