"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." -Plutarch

The Open Society Salon is a friendly social club inspired by the Salon's of Europe during the age of Enlightenment. In keeping with this inspiration, the Salon aims engage in intelligent and vigorous conversation and affect public opinion to the extent possible.

Do you like to read and discuss history, the arts, literature, science, politics, philosophy or economics? Join us bi-weekly for beer, pizza and good conversation.

"The supreme advantage of debate is that it compels a man to think.- George Jacob Holyoake

"He was a wise man who invented beer." - Plato

"You think man needs rule, he needs beer." - Henry Miller

"There may be a few good men who don't drink, but they've got to prove it." - Colonel Lincoln Karmany, USMC

"A philosopher is an explosion waiting to happen" - Nietzsche

‎"Culture and Education are qualities found in persons who have first been taught to read and write and then have managed, against heavy odds, to cultivate their minds, to educate themselves." - Jacques Barzun

"Culture in whatever form -art, thought, history, religion- is for meditation and conversation." - Jacques Barzun

"My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company." "You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company, that is the best.- Persuasion by Jane Austen

"Again, old man, you outfight the Argives in debate! ...if only I had ten men like Nestor to plan with me among Achaea's armies- then we could topple Priam's citadel in a day..." - King Agamemnon in Book 2, The Iliad, line 440


Painting: The School of Athens