10 Greatest Thinkers
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- KwesiJ0
Muhammad
- peace be upon him.Khurram
- had a lot of wives, that's never wisekelpie
- customary in some places, he was still wise and full love and truth. He only had one for most of his life until his 40s.KwesiJ
- Very humble and simple living type of guy from what I know. His main wife was richer than him and he gave most of it to the needy.KwesiJ
- ....the needy.KwesiJ
- but ya having more than one wife is prolly not too wise ;]KwesiJ
- Mohammed was also a very violent man. Not sure how that squares with the kindness thing.gramme
- He lived in an extremely violent time and place and was being persecuted, he alwats preached peace. His legacy in the mideast is IN FACT peace if you know the history.KwesiJ
- ...the mideast is peace and unifying the Arab world if you know the history.KwesiJ
- In other words he was being attacked and so were his followers, Islam means 'peace' for a reason.KwesiJ
- That's one way of telling the story...gramme
- No prophet is a great thinker imo. They just babble things from above (in their own words).Corvo2
- eryx0
- Khurram0
this Tesla guy's getting mad play. Who is he?
- David Bowie played him in that film last year.kelpie
- We'll never know he "arced" himself through the space/time continuum. Much like JesusMimio
- and krishnakelpie
- really? I should know that, im a Bowie fan(atic). Time to wikipedia his assKhurram
- super electrical genius, wanted to power the world for freeKwesiJ
- He invented Alternating Current.eryx
- Plus..."Five Man Acoustical Jam"...ya know?Mimio
- mmm, he's not Wittgenstein i tell you that. Oh there's one, i'll ad him to mineKhurram
- hallelujah0
JazX
- Khurram0
I for one object to the paucity of women in this list....
- and thartone of them is Ayn Randhallelujah
- Good point. Got any?joeth
- lol. No shit. What is the deal with Ayn Rand?Mimio
- don't ask mehallelujah
- she was a narcissistic rain-cloud of humanistic nihilism (parse that if you dare)...gramme
- She believed in a rational society where the pursuit of excellence and selfishness was virtuecannonball
- Khurram0
i'm a fan of James Joyce, but he's not a woman...
- dskz0
Juiceman
- Khurram0
Wittgenstein, also not a woman..
- Khurram0
I think i have a problem having women as heroes... fuck, Simone De Beauvoir i like her, she was a great thinker..
- Khurram0
aaanyway, i'm outski. lates
- hallelujah0
jiddhu krishnamurti
- Renegade0
In no particular order:
Picasso
Plato
Galileo
Da Vinci
Einstein
Newton
Darwin
Freud
Aristotle
Nietzsche
- KwesiJ0
hey designers where's all the designers in this list?
- smart designers = short listhallelujah
- i would be highly disappointed if a designer showed up as one of the 10 greatest thinkers.vanilla_cam
- designers must hate themselvesKwesiJ
- dasohr0
Bill Hicks
and Rev. Billy from the Church of Stop Shopping.
- gung_hoek0
jürgen habermas also did a lot of serious thinking.
- Llyod0
lol@people on this board judging the world's greatest thinkers. what a joke.
- We're not. The historians did it for us.Mimio
- says the guy with the owl tattoo and the scraped urethraTheBlueOne
- cannonball0
Khalil Gibran