Plato
Aristotle
John Burnet
W. T. Stace
Diogenes Laertius
Titus Lucretius Carus
active 1st century Longinus
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Xenophon
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Plutarch
Edward Vernon Arnold
Ptahhotep
Laozi
Confucius
active 6th century B.C. Sunzi
Omar Khayyam
Saint of Hippo Augustine
Boethius
Moses Maimonides
à Kempis Thomas
Jean Calvin
Saint Thomas More
Niccolò Machiavelli
Michel de Montaigne
Robert Burton
Francis Bacon
René Descartes
Thomas Hobbes
Benedictus de Spinoza
Blaise Pascal
John Locke
Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
George Berkeley
François duc de La Rochefoucauld
William Blake
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Samuel Johnson
Friedrich Schiller
Mary Wollstonecraft
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
John Stuart Mill
Karl Marx
Alexis de Tocqueville
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Carlyle
graf Leo Tolstoy
John Henry Newman
Lewis Carroll
Henry Sidgwick
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
William James
John Dewey
Bertrand Russell
G. E. Moore
Alfred North Whitehead
Henri Bergson
Benedetto Croce
Oswald Spengler
Miguel de Unamuno
George Santayana
G. K. Chesterton
C. G. Jung
Bernard Shaw
Kahlil Gibran
Hermann Hesse
Inazo Nitobe
Kakuzo Okakura