Who is your favorite philosopher? and Why? (Please quote)?

Question

I've recently studied Socrates, Nieztsche, Schopenhauer, Epicurus and Epictetus. My favorite reading was "The allegory of the Cave" by Plato. I'd love to hear your opinion

Answer 1

STOICISM by Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)

Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish but wish for everything to happen as it does happen, and your life will be serene.
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It is not the event itself that is important, but rather our reaction to that event. “Rather than altering the external world to bring it into line with one's desires, (one should) set those desires so that they are in line with the way the external world actually is.”
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Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Answer 2

Kurt Vonnegut

Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. I am dead now. I am in Heaven. That is why my parents did not pick up my cake at the bakery. I am not mad at the ice-cream truck driver, even though he was drunk when he hit me. It didn't hurt much. It wasn't even as bad as the sting of a bumblebee. I am really happy here! It's so much fun. I'm glad the driver was drunk. If he hadn't been, I might not have gone to Heaven for years and years and years. I would have had to go to high school first, and then beauty college. I would have had to get married and have babies and everything. Now I can just play and play and play. Any time I want any pink cotton candy I can have some. Everybody up here is happy - the animals and the dead soldiers and people who went to the electric chair and everything. They're all glad for whatever sent them here. Nobody is mad. We're all too busy playing shuffleboard. So if you think of killing somebody, don't worry about it. Just go ahead and do it. Whoever you do it to should kiss you for doing it. The soldiers up here just love the shrapnel and the tanks and the bayonets and the dum dums that let them play shuffleboard all the time - and drink beer.

Answer 3

William James is my personal favorite. To get a sense of why, get a hold of "The Will to Believe and other essays." The title essay in that book is perhaps over-rated and over-discussed, but the other essays contain the real gems. Including this thought, from The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life: "Since victory and defeat there must be, the victory to be philosophically prayed for is that of the more inclusive side -- of the side which even in the hour of triumph will to some degree do justice to the ideals in which the vanquished party's interests lay. The course of history is nothing but the story of men's struggles from generation to generation to find the more and more inclusive order. Invent some manner of realizing your own ideals which will also satisfy the alien demands -- that and that only is the path of peace!"

Answer 4

Snoopy. I don't mean to be funny. I have a degree in Philosophy and have study a lot of the various people listed. But I think that philosophy is a look at the world in simple terms. Who cares whether a tree falling in the woods without anyone around makes a noise. But Snoopy understands what is important.

Answer 5

I love Roland Barthe, Bernard Hernri Levy....and John Dewey
I like contemporary or more so than the classics....
old school I would have to say..Kirkegard, Hegel, Kant

Roland Barthe has a great essay where he compares the WWF with the Greek spectacle sports....

Answer 6

French pholosopher and a poet. Gaston BACHULAR( maybe misspelled)

hE S BEEN MY HERO since high school.

His famous quote,

" I pray not for food for today, I pray for the hunger for today, cuz without hunger I cant appreciate the taste of food."

How beautuful words!!!!!

He also said

" The heaven must be a library of poems cuz poems make me dream and in this dream I FEEL like I AM IN HEAVEN"

Answer 7

Wittgenstein - because he cut throw so much with the Tractatus and then continued to develop thinking that answered questions which plagued so many.

Answer 8

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

Answer 9

I like Larry from Moe, Larry Curly because he don't take no stuff from Moe.

Answer 10

" I am my own favorite philosopher, because i am"