Voices across the centuries

Read across traditions and ages through the words of each thinker.

  1. Aristotle

    17 quotes

  2. Confucius

    17 quotes

  3. Plato

    16 quotes

  4. Seneca

    14 quotes

  5. Mencius

    12 quotes

  6. Laozi

    11 quotes

  7. Friedrich Nietzsche

    10 quotes

  8. Zhuangzi

    10 quotes

  9. Marcus Aurelius

    9 quotes

  10. Augustine of Hippo

    9 quotes

  11. Baruch Spinoza

    9 quotes

  12. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    9 quotes

  13. Bertrand Russell

    9 quotes

  14. Wang Yangming

    9 quotes

  15. Michel de Montaigne

    8 quotes

  16. Blaise Pascal

    8 quotes

  17. Immanuel Kant

    8 quotes

  18. Arthur Schopenhauer

    8 quotes

  19. Søren Kierkegaard

    8 quotes

  20. Epictetus

    7 quotes

  21. William James

    7 quotes

  22. Albert Camus

    7 quotes

  23. Hannah Arendt

    7 quotes

  24. John Locke

    7 quotes

  25. David Hume

    7 quotes

  26. Dhammapada

    7 quotes

  27. Socrates

    6 quotes

  28. Epicurus

    6 quotes

  29. René Descartes

    6 quotes

  30. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    6 quotes

  31. Henry David Thoreau

    6 quotes

  32. John Stuart Mill

    6 quotes

  33. Xunzi

    6 quotes

  34. Bhagavad Gita

    6 quotes

  35. Lucretius

    5 quotes

  36. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    5 quotes

  37. Voltaire

    5 quotes

  38. Jean-Paul Sartre

    5 quotes

  39. Alfred North Whitehead

    5 quotes

  40. Cicero

    5 quotes

  41. Karl Popper

    5 quotes

  42. The Doctrine of the Mean

    5 quotes

  43. G. W. F. Hegel

    5 quotes

  44. Heraclitus

    4 quotes

  45. Thomas Hobbes

    4 quotes

  46. John Dewey

    4 quotes

  47. The Great Learning

    4 quotes

  48. Zhu Xi

    4 quotes

  49. Liang Qichao

    4 quotes

  50. Hu Shi

    4 quotes

  51. Thomas Aquinas

    4 quotes

  52. Henri Bergson

    4 quotes

  53. Nishida Kitaro

    4 quotes

  54. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    4 quotes

  55. Friedrich Schiller

    4 quotes

  56. Simone de Beauvoir

    3 quotes

  57. Viktor Frankl

    3 quotes

  58. Boethius

    3 quotes

  59. The Book of Changes

    3 quotes

  60. Francis Bacon

    3 quotes

  61. Simone Weil

    3 quotes

  62. Talmudic tradition

    3 quotes

  63. Wang Fuzhi

    3 quotes

  64. Horace

    3 quotes

  65. Dante Alighieri

    3 quotes

  66. Anselm of Canterbury

    2 quotes

  67. William of Ockham

    2 quotes

  68. Mozi

    2 quotes

  69. Sunzi

    2 quotes

  70. Zhang Zai

    2 quotes

  71. Wang Guowei

    2 quotes

  72. Feng Youlan

    2 quotes

  73. Liang Shuming

    2 quotes

  74. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    2 quotes

  75. Jeremy Bentham

    2 quotes

  76. Charles Sanders Peirce

    2 quotes

  77. George Santayana

    2 quotes

  78. Martin Buber

    2 quotes

  79. Iris Murdoch

    2 quotes

  80. Karl Jaspers

    2 quotes

  81. Dōgen

    2 quotes

  82. Huineng

    2 quotes

  83. Han Feizi

    2 quotes

  84. Qian Mu

    2 quotes

  85. Rabindranath Tagore

    2 quotes

  86. Al-Ghazali

    2 quotes

  87. Paul Tillich

    2 quotes

  88. Erich Fromm

    2 quotes

  89. Zhaozhou Congshen

    2 quotes

  90. Wumen Huikai

    2 quotes

  91. Alexis de Tocqueville

    2 quotes

  92. Adam Smith

    2 quotes

  93. Plutarch

    1 quote

  94. Auguste Comte

    1 quote

  95. Zengzi

    1 quote

  96. Protagoras

    1 quote

  97. Plotinus

    1 quote

  98. George Berkeley

    1 quote

  99. Giambattista Vico

    1 quote

  100. José Ortega y Gasset

    1 quote

  101. Mary Wollstonecraft

    1 quote

  102. The Buddha

    1 quote

  103. Chandogya Upanisad

    1 quote

  104. Diamond Sutra

    1 quote

  105. Guanzi

    1 quote

  106. Swami Vivekananda

    1 quote

  107. Maimonides

    1 quote

  108. Ibn Khaldun

    1 quote

  109. Gabriel Marcel

    1 quote

  110. Linji Yixuan

    1 quote

  111. Yunmen Wenyan

    1 quote

  112. Mazu Daoyi

    1 quote

  113. Baizhang Huaihai

    1 quote

  114. Averroes

    1 quote

  115. Democritus

    1 quote

  116. Diogenes of Sinope

    1 quote

  117. Ovid

    1 quote