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This is a list of philosophers listed in The Philosophy Book (2011, DK), ISBN 978-0-7566-6861-7.


 * 1) Thales of Miletus: Everything is made of water
 * 2) Laozi: The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao
 * 3) Pythagoras: Number is the ruler of forms and ideas
 * 4) Siddhartha Gautama: Happy is he who has overcome his ego
 * 5) Confucius: Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles
 * 6) Heraclitus: Everything is flux
 * 7) Parmenides: All is one
 * 8) Protagoras: Man is the measure of all things
 * 9) Mozi: When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum
 * 10) Democritus and Leucippus: Nothing exists except atoms and empty space
 * 11) Socrates: The life which is unexamined is not worth living
 * 12) Plato: Earthly knowledge is but shadow
 * 13) Aristotle: Truth resides in the world around us
 * 14) Epicurus: Death is nothing to us
 * 15) Diogenes of Sinope: He has the most who is most content with the least
 * 16) Zeno of Citium: The goal of life is living in agreement with nature
 * 17) St. Augustine of Hippo: God is not the parent of evils
 * 18) Boethius: God foresees our free thoughts and actions
 * 19) Avicenna: The soul is distinct from the body
 * 20) St. Anselm: Just by thinking about God we can know he exists
 * 21) Averroes: Philosophy and religion are not incompatible
 * 22) Moses Maimonides: God has no attributes
 * 23) Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi: Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form
 * 24) Thomas Aquinas: The universe has not always existed
 * 25) Nikolaus von Kues: God is the not-other
 * 26) Desiderius Erasmus: To know nothing is the happiest life
 * 27) Niccolò Machiavelli: The end justifies the means
 * 28) Michel de Montaigne: Fame and tranquillity can never be bedfellows
 * 29) Francis Bacon: Knowledge is power
 * 30) Thomas Hobbes: Man is a machine
 * 31) René Descartes: I think therefore I am
 * 32) Blaise Pascal: Imagination decides everything
 * 33) Benedictus Spinoza: God is the cause of all things, which are in him
 * 34) John Locke: No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience
 * 35) Gottfried Leibniz: There are two kinds of truths: truths of reasoning and truths of fact
 * 36) George Berkeley: To be is to be perceived
 * 37) Voltaire: Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd
 * 38) David Hume: Custom is the great guide of human life
 * 39) Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains
 * 40) Adam Smith: Man is an animal that makes bargains
 * 41) Immanuel Kant: There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world
 * 42) Edmund Burke: Society is indeed a contract
 * 43) Jeremy Bentham: The greatest happiness for the greatest number
 * 44) Mary Wollstonecraft: Mind has no gender
 * 45) Johann Gottlieb Fichte: What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is
 * 46) Friedrich Schlegel: About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy
 * 47) Georg Hegel: Reality is a historical process
 * 48) Arthur Schopenhauer: Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world
 * 49) Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach: Theology is anthropology
 * 50) John Stuart Mill: Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign
 * 51) Søren Kierkegaard: Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
 * 52) Karl Marx: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles
 * 53) Henry David Thoreau: Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator?
 * 54) Charles Sanders Peirce: Consider what effects things have
 * 55) William James: Act as if what you do makes a difference
 * 56) Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is something to be surpassed
 * 57) Ahad Ha'am: Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer
 * 58) Ferdinand de Saussure: Every message is made of signs
 * 59) Edmund Husserl: Experience by itself is not science
 * 60) Henri Bergson: Intuition goes in the very direction of life
 * 61) John Dewey: We only think when we are confronted with problems
 * 62) George Santayana: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
 * 63) Miguel de Unamuno: It is only suffering that makes us persons
 * 64) William Du Bois: Believe in life
 * 65) Bertrand Russell: The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work
 * 66) Max Scheler: Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge
 * 67) Karl Jaspers: Only as an individual can man become a philosopher
 * 68) José Ortega y Gasset: Life is a series of collisions with the future
 * 69) Hajime Tanabe: To philosophize, first one must confess
 * 70) Ludwig Wittgenstein: The limits of my language are the limits of my world
 * 71) Martin Heidegger: We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed
 * 72) Tetsuro Watsuji: The individual's only true moral choice is through self-sacrifice for the community
 * 73) Rudolf Carnap: Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy
 * 74) Walter Benjamin: The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope
 * 75) Herbert Marcuse: That which is cannot be true
 * 76) Hans-Georg Gadamer: History does not belong to us but we belong to it
 * 77) Karl Popper: In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable
 * 78) Theodor Adorno: Intelligence is a moral category
 * 79) Jean-Paul Sartre: Existence precedes essence
 * 80) Hannah Arendt: The banality of evil
 * 81) Emmanuel Levinas: Reason lives in language
 * 82) Maurice Merleau-Ponty: In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it
 * 83) Simone de Beauvoir: Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female
 * 84) Willard Van Orman Quine: Language is a social art
 * 85) Isaiah Berlin: The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains
 * 86) Arne Naess: Think like a mountain
 * 87) Albert Camus: Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
 * 88) Roland Barthes: Language is a skin
 * 89) Mary Midgley: How would we manage without a culture?
 * 90) Thomas Kuhn: Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory
 * 91) John Rawls: The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance
 * 92) Richard Wollheim: Art is a form of life
 * 93) Paul Feyerabend: Anything goes
 * 94) Jean-François Lyotard: Knowledge is produced to be sold
 * 95) Frantz Fanon: For the black man, there is only one destiny and it is white
 * 96) Michel Foucault: Man is an invention of recent date
 * 97) Noam Chomsky: If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion
 * 98) Jürgen Habermas: Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions
 * 99) Jacques Derrida: There is nothing outside of the text
 * 100) Richard Rorty: There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves
 * 101) Luce Irigaray: Every desire has a relation to madness
 * 102) Edward Said: Every empire tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires
 * 103) Hélène Cixous: Thought has always worked by opposition
 * 104) Julia Kristeva: Who plays God in present-day feminism?
 * 105) Henry Odera Oruka: Philosophy is not only a written enterprise
 * 106) Peter Singer: In suffering, the animals are our equals
 * 107) Slavoj Žižek: All the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure

Other philosophers, etc.:


 * Homi K. Bhabha
 * A. J. Ayer
 * Edmund Spenser
 * Jürgen Habermas
 * Auguste Comte
 * Johann Gottlieb Fichte
 * Gilles Deleuze
 * Félix Guattari
 * Hans-Hermann Hoppe
 * Frantz Fanon
 * René Guénon
 * John Michael Greer
 * Jordan Peterson
 * Scott Howard (The Transgender-Industrial Complex)
 * Anita Sarkeesian
 * Jason Reza Jorjani
 * Nick Land
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * Ernst Jünger
 * Harlan Ellison
 * Bronze Age Pervert
 * Rudolf Steiner
 * Jim Rickards
 * Tarl Warwick
 * John Lyons
 * Treydon Lunot
 * Giambattista Vico
 * Arne Næss
 * Timothy Morton
 * Amber Heard
 * Jussie Smollett
 * Alexander Bard
 * Jan Söderqvist
 * James Ellis (Exiting Modernity)
 * Max Stirner
 * John Zerzan
 * David Skrbina