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G.K. Chesterton
(1874 - 1936)
H.L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956)
Flannery O’Connor
(1925 - 1964)
Mary McCarthy
(1912 - 1989)
Walt Whitman
(1819 - 1892)
Saadat Hasan Manto
(1912 - 1955)
Martin Luther
(1483 - 1546)
Anna Comnena
(1083 - c. 1153)
Marina Tsvetaeva
(1892 - 1941)
Bertrand Russell
(1872 - 1970)
Ibn Khaldun
(1332 - 1406)
James Joyce
(1882 - 1941)
Farid ud-Din Attar
(c. 1142 - c. 1220)
Albert Einstein
(1879 - 1955)
Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865)
Isaac Ben Yedaiah
(1450 - 1500)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1844 - 1889)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882)
Elisabeth Sifton
(1939 - 2019)
Usama Ibn Munqidh
(1095 - 1188)
Jonathan Edwards
(1703 - 1758)
Leo Tolstoy
(1828 - 1910)
Saint Teresa of Ávila
(1515 - 1582)
Søren Kierkegaard
(1813 - 1855)
John Milton
(1608 - 1674)
Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826)
Lucretius
(c. 95 BC - c. 50 BC)
Gianfrancesco Straparola
(c. 1480 - c. 1557)
Blaise Pascal
(1623 - 1662)
Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805 - 1859)
Xunzi
(c. 300 BC - 230 BC)
Jorge Luis Borges
(1899 - 1986)
Vladimir Lenin
(1870 - 1924)
Simone Weil
(1909 - 1943)
Pope Innocent IV
(1195 - 1254)
Saint Jerome
(c. 347 - c. 420)
Philip Roth
(1933 - 2018)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
(1903 - 1991)
Reinhold Niebuhr
(1892 - 1971)
James Weldon Johnson
(1871 - 1938)
John Updike
(1932 - 2009)
William Hazlitt
(1778 - 1830)
Herodotus
(c. 484 BC - c. 425 BC)
Charlie Chaplin
(1889 - 1977)
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844 - 1900)
Euripides
(c. 484 BC - c. 406 BC)
Pliny the Younger
(61 - 112)
Hermann Hesse
(1877 - 1962)
Hafez
(c. 1320 - c. 1390)
Iris Murdoch
(1919 - 1999)
Theodor Herzl
(1860 - 1904)
James Baldwin
(1924 - 1987)
William James
(1842 - 1910)
Phillis Wheatley
(c. 1753 - 1784)
Thomas More
(1478 - 1535)
Jean Meslier
(1664 - 1729)
Enheduanna
(c. 2285 BC - 2250 BC)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832)