Voices across the centuries

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

  1. Aristotle

    18 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. Hannah Arendt

    10 quotes

  9. Zhuangzi

    10 quotes

  10. Marcus Aurelius

    9 quotes

  11. Augustine of Hippo

    9 quotes

  12. Baruch Spinoza

    9 quotes

  13. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    9 quotes

  14. Simone de Beauvoir

    9 quotes

  15. Bertrand Russell

    9 quotes

  16. Wang Yangming

    9 quotes

  17. Kwasi Wiredu

    9 quotes

  18. Michel de Montaigne

    8 quotes

  19. Blaise Pascal

    8 quotes

  20. Immanuel Kant

    8 quotes

  21. Arthur Schopenhauer

    8 quotes

  22. Søren Kierkegaard

    8 quotes

  23. David Hume

    8 quotes

  24. Simone Weil

    8 quotes

  25. Dhammapada

    8 quotes

  26. Frantz Fanon

    8 quotes

  27. Epictetus

    7 quotes

  28. William James

    7 quotes

  29. Albert Camus

    7 quotes

  30. John Locke

    7 quotes

  31. Iris Murdoch

    7 quotes

  32. Al-Ghazali

    7 quotes

  33. Maimonides

    7 quotes

  34. Nishida Kitaro

    7 quotes

  35. Averroes

    7 quotes

  36. Avicenna

    7 quotes

  37. Paulin Hountondji

    7 quotes

  38. Kwame Anthony Appiah

    7 quotes

  39. Socrates

    6 quotes

  40. Epicurus

    6 quotes

  41. René Descartes

    6 quotes

  42. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    6 quotes

  43. Henry David Thoreau

    6 quotes

  44. John Stuart Mill

    6 quotes

  45. Xunzi

    6 quotes

  46. Mary Wollstonecraft

    6 quotes

  47. Bhagavad Gita

    6 quotes

  48. Al-Farabi

    6 quotes

  49. Lucretius

    5 quotes

  50. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    5 quotes

  51. Voltaire

    5 quotes

  52. Jean-Paul Sartre

    5 quotes

  53. Alfred North Whitehead

    5 quotes

  54. Cicero

    5 quotes

  55. Karl Popper

    5 quotes

  56. The Doctrine of the Mean

    5 quotes

  57. G. W. F. Hegel

    5 quotes

  58. Ibn Khaldun

    5 quotes

  59. Elizabeth Anscombe

    5 quotes

  60. Philippa Foot

    5 quotes

  61. Léopold Sédar Senghor

    5 quotes

  62. Aimé Césaire

    5 quotes

  63. Nishitani Keiji

    5 quotes

  64. Heraclitus

    4 quotes

  65. Thomas Hobbes

    4 quotes

  66. John Dewey

    4 quotes

  67. The Great Learning

    4 quotes

  68. Mozi

    4 quotes

  69. Zhang Zai

    4 quotes

  70. Zhu Xi

    4 quotes

  71. Wang Guowei

    4 quotes

  72. Liang Qichao

    4 quotes

  73. Hu Shi

    4 quotes

  74. Thomas Aquinas

    4 quotes

  75. George Berkeley

    4 quotes

  76. Henri Bergson

    4 quotes

  77. Huineng

    4 quotes

  78. Linji Yixuan

    4 quotes

  79. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    4 quotes

  80. Friedrich Schiller

    4 quotes

  81. Martha Nussbaum

    4 quotes

  82. Sophie Oluwole

    4 quotes

  83. Ibn Tufayl

    4 quotes

  84. Saadia Gaon

    4 quotes

  85. Mogobe B. Ramose

    4 quotes

  86. Watsuji Tetsuro

    4 quotes

  87. Nagarjuna

    4 quotes

  88. Enrique Dussel

    4 quotes

  89. Boethius

    3 quotes

  90. The Book of Changes

    3 quotes

  91. Feng Youlan

    3 quotes

  92. Francis Bacon

    3 quotes

  93. Talmudic tradition

    3 quotes

  94. Gabriel Marcel

    3 quotes

  95. Horace

    3 quotes

  96. Anselm of Canterbury

    2 quotes

  97. William of Ockham

    2 quotes

  98. Liang Shuming

    2 quotes

  99. Jeremy Bentham

    2 quotes

  100. George Santayana

    2 quotes

  101. Martin Buber

    2 quotes

  102. Karl Jaspers

    2 quotes

  103. Dōgen

    2 quotes

  104. Han Feizi

    2 quotes

  105. Qian Mu

    2 quotes

  106. Rabindranath Tagore

    2 quotes

  107. Paul Tillich

    2 quotes

  108. Alexis de Tocqueville

    2 quotes

  109. Adam Smith

    2 quotes

  110. Zengzi

    1 quote

  111. Plotinus

    1 quote

  112. Giambattista Vico

    1 quote

  113. José Ortega y Gasset

    1 quote

  114. Chandogya Upanisad

    1 quote

  115. Diamond Sutra

    1 quote

  116. Baizhang Huaihai

    1 quote

  117. Diogenes of Sinope

    1 quote

  118. Ovid

    1 quote