Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
philosopher
Robert M. Pirsig
American writer and philosopher
Christine de Pizan
Italian poet and author at the court of King Charles VI of France and several French dukes
Plato
Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world
Plutarch
Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi
George Orwell
English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer, and Catholic theologian
Iris Murdoch
Irish and British novelist and philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history
John Stuart Mill
English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament and civil servant