Great Minds
Architects of thought · Masters of the inner world
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, historian, and writer of the Renaissance period. He is best kn…
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. He proposed that unconscious drives, particularly sex…
Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. A former collaborator of Freud, he …
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Adi Shankaracharya
Adi Shankaracharya was an 8th-century Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta (non-dual…
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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher. Associated with the Frankfurt School of c…
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Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. His most famous work, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, i…
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Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period. He is traditionally cred…
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan. Writing in the aftermath of the English Civil Wa…
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known as "The Obscure" and "The Weeping Philosopher." His central doctr…
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Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He founded the Lyceum and w…
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Plato
Plato was an Athenian philosopher and student of Socrates. He founded the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the…
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