Western Philosophy
Plato and Socrates (470-347 b.c.e.)
Aristotle (384-322 b.c.e)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Emil Cioran (1911-1995)
Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Eastern Philosophy
Confucius (551-479 BCE)
Laozi (6th Century BCE; Taoism)
Zhuangzi (369-286 BCE; Taoism)
Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 BCE; Buddha)
Nagarjuna (150-250CE Buddhism)
Bodhidharma (5-6 Century CE Budddhism)
Ibn Sina (980-1037; Persian)
Rumi (1207-1273; Persian; Sufi)
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273; Persian; Islam)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941; Indian)
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902; Indian)
D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966; Japanese, Buddhism)
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-2022; Vietnamese, Buddhism)
Krishnamurti (1895-1986; Indian)
Literary Figures
Albert Camus
Feydor Dostoevsky
Franz Kafka
George Orwell
James Joyce
Ralph Waldo Emerson