8 Brilliant Philosophers

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  • 546 BCE

    Thales

    “The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
    Thales of Miletus is regarded as one of the fathers of Greek philosophy, being a pivotal point for following generations of famous thinkers, philosophers and scientists.
  • 495 BCE

    Pythagoras

    “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”
    Another pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, Pythagoras is a famous mathematician who is credited with inventing the Pythagorean Theorem, one of the key computations in geometry.
  • 475 BCE

    Heraclitus

    “There is nothing permanent except change.”
    Heraclitus is yet another pre-Socratic philosopher, mostly known for his contribution to the thought that things are always changing.
  • 428 BCE

    Anaxagoras

    “The seed of everything is in everything else.”
    Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Athens.
  • 348 BCE

    Plato

    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato, a student of Socrates, is regarded as the father of political science and the founder of one of the world's first known institutions of higher learning, the Academy in Athens.
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  • 330 BCE

    Empedocles

    “There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.
  • 270 BCE

    Epicurus

    “Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
    Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.
  • 370

    Democritus

    “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
    Democritus, the so called “laughing philosopher”, was an influential ancient Greek philosopher and one of the first advocates of democracy, equality and liberty. He was also the first person, along with his mentor Leucippus, to advance the hypothesis that all matter is composed of small invisible particles called atoms.