10 Greatest Thinkers
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- KwesiJ0
i just watched a doc on Tesla and this guy was a monster, he had 700 patents including the induction motor and the first military radio devices, he ivented alternating currents, made some of the first xrays and catscans and was talking about interplanetary communication in the 1800s. he was funded by JP morgan to build this tower that was supposedly going to be able to transmit energy wirelessly but was shut down because it's easier to gauge and charge for wired energy. Makes you wonder what sort of technology exists now that will never be publically in use.
- Wesnology610
me
- vanilla_cam0
you guys put me on to him and thought this was an interesting read....
- Amicus0
Has anyone mentioned Ghandi?
- Amicus0
Oh, and I spend too much time thinking to get anything done that would actually get me on this list. :)
- boobs0
What the hell is a "great thinker" anyway? Most people don't ever even talk about what they're thinking.
The most interesting thoughts that ever occurred were probably kept secret.
- BuddhaHat0
If I was to throw in one modern-day thinker, it would be Alain de Botton. His works are fascinating, and an enjoyable read.
- boobs0
What about Descartes?
- francoisfido0
Žižek is kind of rad.
- Corvo20
Plato
Aristotle
Espinosa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba...
Kant
Descartes
Marx
Wittgenstein
Bergson (so I've heard)
Heiddeger ( so I've heard)
- Corvo20
Plato
Aristotle
Espinosa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba...
Kant
Descartes
Marx
Wittgenstein
Bergson (so I've heard)
Heiddeger ( so I've heard)
- jaylarson0
Daniel Quinn
- Corvo20
I've also heard good stuff about Peter Sloterdijk, although I've never read it (nor Bergson or Heidegger - just abstracts). They're are too close to be read from an historian point-of-view. The influence of a thinker needs at least 200 years to get through.
- search0
terrence mckenna
alexander & ann shuglin
alex grey
the karmapa
neem karoli baba
paramahansa yogananda
chögyam trungpa
albert hoffman
dr. timothy leary
dr. richard alpert
- search0
houston smith
ralph metzner
bhagavan das
allen ginsberg
aldous huxley
peter max
jack kerouac
swami satchidananda
prabhupada
yogi bhajan
- Anders0
alexander the great,
- ross0
Vanessa Marcil,
Daniel Cosgrove,
Douglas Emerson,
Gabrielle Carteris,
Joe E. Tata,
Mark Damon Espinoza ,
Kathleen Robertson ,
Jamie Walters,
Tiffani Thiessen,
Ian Ziering