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Peter Abelard

Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Theodor Adorno

Aeschylus

Maulana Muhammad Ali

David Allen

The David Allen Company
Stephen E. Ambrose

Anonymous

Anselm of Canterbury

Archimedes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Darren Aronofsky

Jeff Karpala (Source: Flickr)

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
David Auburn

Columbia University

W. H. Auden

Augustine of Hippo

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
James Bamford

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.

Roland Barthes

Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France

Edmond Baudoin

Edmond Baudoin at his desk
Simone De Beauvoir


Samuel Beckett

Edward Bellamy

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Henri Bergson

George Berkeley

Bonnie Biafore

Photo taken by Larry Laszlo.
Copyright © Bonnie Biafore. All rights reserved.

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
William Goldbloom Bloch

Courtesy of the author.
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).

Jorge Luis Borges


Ray Bradbury

Daphne A. Brooks

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikipedia)
Titus Burckhardt

Robert Byrne


Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Georg Cantor

Fritjof Capra

Lewis Carroll

Thomas Cathcart

John Burlinson, 9/21/08.
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Paulo Coelho

William L. Coleman

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Nicolaus Copernicus

Portrait by Torun, early 16th Century (Wikimedia Commons)

E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Aswath Damodaran

Copyright © Prof Aswath Damodaran. All rights reserved.
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Richard Dawkins

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Ronald Dworkin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Russell Dyer

Credit: Russell J.T. Dyer
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti


Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Gustave Flaubert

Michel Foucault

Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
John J. Fux

From Wikimedia Commons
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
I. M. Gelfand

Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann with Maria Eitel (Credit: Pierre Omidyar, Flickr)
Jean Genet

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Joshua S. Goldstein

Michael Zide / Amherst, MA, 2004.
A. C. Grayling


Brian Greene


Graham Greene

Calvin S. Hall

Courtesy of G. William Domhoff, Ph.D.,
at dreamresearch.net

Thich Nhat Hanh

William Harvey

Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library,
University of Kansas Medical Center
Stephen William Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
F. A. Hayek

G. W. F. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Werner Heisenberg

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Jimi Hendrix


Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Victor Herbert

Victor Herbert (Musician) ~ From "What We Hear in Music, Anne Faulkner, 1913
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Edmund Husserl

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France

James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
C. G. Jung


Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Stuart A. Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Radden Keefe

Sai Sriskandarajah
Johannes Kepler

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Jack Kerouac

Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid

Joi Ito

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Madame de Lafayette

George Lakoff

The Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
The Langenscheidt Editorial Staff

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine Lavoisier

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Daniel J. Levitin

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
H. G. Liddell

H. G. Liddell. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Titus Livy

from Wikipedia
Seth Lloyd

John Brockman
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller

Federico Garcia Lorca

Niccolo Machiavelli

David Mack

David W. Mack, Exhibit Hall, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Maurice Maeterlinck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Moses Maimonides

Eric Margolis

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
James Clerk Maxwell

Engraving by G. J. Stodard from a photograph by Fergus of Glasgow, reproduced in "Britain's Heritage of Science" by Arthur Shuster and Arthur Shipley (1917)
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Kevin D. Mitnick

Copyright Mitnick Security Consulting
Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michel Eyquem Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Miyamoto Musashi

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Pablo Neruda

John von Neumann

MacTutor History of Mathematics (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/PictDisplay/Von_Neumann.html)
Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Robert Nozick

Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
F. David Peat

fdavidpeat.com
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney

Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Max Planck

Deutsche Post AG
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plotinus

Plutarch

Michael Polanyi


Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Paul Pope

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Karl Popper

Marcel Proust

Ptolemy

public domain - see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ptolemaeus.jpg
Thomas Pynchon

Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Steve Reich

Ian Oliver, September 8, 2006

Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
James M. Robinson

Francois Rochefoucauld, duc de La

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Joe Sacco

Photo by Matt Musselman
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Winthrop Sargeant

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jeffrey Satinover

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
Erwin Schrodinger

Randal L. Schwartz

By Derrick Story.
Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
Yasser Seirawan

Yasser Seirawan (1960- ), 2003 U.S. Chess Championships, Seattle, Washington. Photo by James F. Perry.
Michael Anthony Sells

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
linkWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Jeremy Silman

© 2002 by James F. Perry, Seattle, Wash.
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
B.F. Skinner

PsychArt
ADAM SMITH

Herbert Weir Smyth

Bryn Mawr College Archives
Paolo Soleri

photo credit: Doctress Neutopia
Sophocles

Benedictus de Spinoza

Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Arthur Sze

Gloria Graham
Tacitus

Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Credit: GerardM (Wikipedia user), 2006
Adobe Creative Team

Adobe Systems HQ, San Jose, California. Photo by user Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Aquinas

Dylan Thomas


Craig Thompson

By Greg Preston
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Kip S. Thorne

Keenan Pepper
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
David Toop

Unknown
Alan M. Turing

Credit: Lmno (Wikipedia user), 2004, Sackville Park, Manchester, England
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Tzu Sun

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright

Kurt Vonnegut

Larry Wall

David Weinberger

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWalt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Richard Wilbur

Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWilliam Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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