Greatest Thinker, in Your Opinion

Of course. What, are you a commie or something?
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No, no, no. Get it right Galt, it's "left-wing-commie-pinko-long-haired-hippie-liberal". Sheesh! :rolleyes:

Free love, low taxes and lots and lots of guns. How can you go wrong with that?
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Well, whatever about the bedroom, I don't think having guns in the bed is a good idea at all. Don't want to go around half-cocked and all that...
 
i think that "ourselves" are the greatest thinkers of all time. look what each person has done on their own. we come with all we need, we just need to learn how to harness it. to place someone on a pedestal would be unecessary when we are the ones that understand their form of thinking.
 
Originally posted by EI_Sparks
No, no, no. Get it right Galt, it's "left-wing-commie-pinko-long-haired-hippie-liberal". Sheesh! :rolleyes:
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Yeah, but "left-wing-commie-pinko-long-haired-hippie-liberal" is redundant! Anyway, I'm hoping you know I was joking about the commie thing.

Originally posted by EI_Sparks
Well, whatever about the bedroom, I don't think having guns in the bed is a good idea at all. Don't want to go around half-cocked and all that...
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I'll strongly consider marrying the woman who likes keeping firearms in her bed.
 
Houdini was one of the great thinkers of our time he fooled many scientests, jung, Galileo. P. T. Barnum ,Neil armstrong And we cant forget the man who invented the zipper WHO was he ???
anybody know..
 
difficult

lots of really good thinkers and it's pretty subjective too.
i mean,you've got to think that some of them are going to hit home with you, then others although very insightful and spiritual still don't relate.
Nietzsche, Castaneda, Andrews, C.Jung, Goethe, and a couple others are really close to my soul.
Eisparks mentioned alot of good ones.
though some of their personal lives i'm sure you'd raise eyebrows at.
 
My answer would have to be Darwin. He was so ahead of his time, not only did he venture into dangerous territory, he introduced one of the most revolutionary scientific theories in history.
 
Darwin

His collected works represent the most comprehensive analysis of life. There is nothing that escaped his view.

In fact the work is so solid and complete that it is possible to flip to any paragraph from his works, taken out of context, and it will make sense. Some of his observations may seem racist or obscure, but all are so comprehensivly covered that none can be accused of lacking for proper study. Everything is cited and hedged with wonderful anecdotes. It is simply the most complete text that science has yet to see.
 
Originally posted by EI_Sparks
I think what you mean Galt, is that you'd have no choice :D
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I could very easily walk away from a woman like that, but why would I want to? :D
 
I now make my choice: Thales, Pre-Socratic philosopher of the Ionian Period in Ancient Greece, the first thinker of the West. The first beacon of rational light after the ignorance of the Dorian Dark Age. Before his time, the physical and behavioral nature of the cosmos was explicated by accounts of divine deeds. Everything was attributed to some story of the pantheon of deities and their constant bickerings. His significance lay not in his works, of which none happen to remain, but in his approach. Unlike his brethren, he used reason to explain previously mysterious phenomena. He is even thought to have introduced the study of geometry to Ancient Greece.
 
i think that "ourselves" are the greatest thinkers of all time. look what each person has done on their own. we come with all we need, we just need to learn how to harness it. to place someone on a pedestal would be unecessary when we are the ones that understand their form of thinking.
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Bullshit.

Greatest thinkers. There are tons, someone here stole the best of them forgot who though.

Einstein for one, was a Rembrandt.
Voltaire for the quips that bite.
No one mentioned Twain so I'll pick him.
Netizche, Bierse and Mencken were brilliant.
Shakespeare was a brilliant savage.
Newton, also was a great thinker.
Camus, Schelling, Russell. Russel was damn funny too.
Machiavelli for his brutal honesty. He made Napoleon possible, another great thinker despite what you fuckers are sure to bitch about him.
And I like how Burgess and Bradbury think, even though we wouldn't traditionally dub them thinkers.

Did someone here mention Sartre? If so, are you sober?
 
Originally posted by Redoubtable
Which famed or not-so-famed cogitator, of all the memorable luminaries of human history, would the reader deem as most worthy of praise?
Please give adequate justification and explantion. Maybe I can learn something new and endearing.
I'm feeling ambivalent at the moment and will reply to my own question in due time.
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Arthur Schopenhauer, for inventing and articulating what Einstein ripped off later ;)
 
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