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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Robert Aitken

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Stephen E. Ambrose

Sherwood Anderson

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

Anselm of Canterbury

Mike Aquilina

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Edwin Arnold

Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
Antonin Artaud

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Athanasius

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

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
St. Teresa of Avila

Peter Paul Rubens
Michael Bakunin

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
John Barth

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Frederic Bastiat

Claude Frédéric Bastiat. Wikimedia Commons.
Stephen Batchelor

Charles Austin Beard

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

Edward Bellamy

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

Luis Quintanilla
George Berkeley

Alexander Berkman

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00769)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
Ancius Boethius

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Ray Bradbury

James Henry Breasted

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

John Bright (1811-1889), British politician
Source: "Great Britain and the American Civil War,"
by Ephraim Douglass Adams
(Project Gutenberg)
Anne Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Robert Bruce

Patrick J. Buchanan

Kyle Cassidy, Oct 2004 (Wikimedia Commons)
William F. Buckley

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

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Samuel Butler

Julius Caesar

public domain
Gene Callahan

Mises.org
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Fritjof Capra

Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Willa Sibert Cather

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

from Wikipedia
U.S. Catholic Church

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC, 2003. Photo by John Workman / Wikipedia.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
John Cleese

Photo by Alan Light, 1989 (Flickr & Cropped for Wikipedia)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJoseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frederick Copleston

John Cornwell

Gregory Corso

Noncorporeal
Ann Coulter

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Aleister Crowley

E. E. Cummings

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

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Charles Darwin

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

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Richard Dawkins

Demosthenes

Roman copy of Greek original of 280 B.C.
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
John Donne

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

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lon Milo Duquette

Will Durant

Arthur Eddington, Sir

Jonathan Edwards

from Wikipedia
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Einhard

from Wikipedia
Albert Einstein

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

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

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Desiderius Erasmus

Euripides

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

William Faulkner

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

Ludwig Feuerbach

Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Orlando Figes

Gustave Flaubert

Theordor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Andre Gide

1893
Langdon Gilkey

Peter H. Gilmore

Credit: David Shankbone, Octo. 2007
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

Emma Goldman

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
Brian Greene

Stanley J. Grenz

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.)
Eric W. Gritsch

Calvin S. Hall

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

Edith Hamilton

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thich Nhat Hanh

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
F. A. Hayek

Steven F. Hayward

Pacific Research Institute
Werner Heisenberg

Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
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)
Gilbert Highet

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

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Ignatius of Loyola

wikimedia commons
Samuel III, Edward Konkin

Karl Hess Club (c)
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Jane Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Chalmers Johnson

Photo courtesy of Chalmers Johnson
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Michio Kaku

John Keats

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Russell Kirk

Heinrich von Kleist

David C. Korten

Peter Kreeft

http://www.peterkreeft.com/
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
James Legge

Engraving from the portrait by J.E. Christie.
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

from Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Lucretius

Martin Luther

Niccolo Machiavelli

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Peter Marshall

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.)
Martin E. Marty

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Patrick McDonnell

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Carolyn Merchant

University of California at Berkeley
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Arthur Miller

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

John Miller (1958-), FBI Assistant Director Office of Public Affairs
(fbi.gov)
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
John Milton

Ludwig von Mises

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Richard Elliott Neustadt

James Newman

Mari Adkins, June 26, 2006
John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Charles Nordhoff

from a family photo from the 1870,s
Julian of Norwich

P.J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Christian Parenti

David Shankbone, September 2007
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Ron Paul

U.S. House of Representatives Photo
F. David Peat

fdavidpeat.com
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

John Perkins

Robert Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Redemptorist Pastoral

Professional Cross of the Redemptorists. Photo by user FS Sebowsky / German Wikipedia.
Thomas De Quincey

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Lisa Randall

Photograph by leslieimage.com who took it at TED 2006
Herbert Edward Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Rachel Naomi Remen

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Samuel Richardson

Rainer Maria Rilke

Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
Murray N. Rothbard

Ludwig von Mises Institute
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Bertrand Russell

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

Carl Sagan

J D Salinger

Joe Scarborough

U.S. House of Representatives Historical Office
Jonathan Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
E. F. Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
John R. Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Sheen Fulton John

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1952 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-123461)
Rupert Sheldrake

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Sophocles

Benedict de Spinoza

John Shelby Spong (Author)

Photo by Scott Griessel / Flickr.
Charlene Spretnak

Starhawk

photo by Bert Meijer
John Steinbeck

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

Wikimedia Commons.
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Lee Strobel

James Strong

James Strong (1822-1894)
Photograph dated circa 1855-1865.
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
St. Thomas Aquinas

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Alexis Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Trigilio

Kala Trobe

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Dalton Trumbo

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Immanuel Velikovsky

Donna Foster Roizen
Virgil

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

Please check wikimedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg for more details
Gregory Vlastos

Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Steven Weinberg

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
James Weinstein

James Weinstein (1926-2005)
courtesy of
In These Times (www.inthesetimes.com)
Rosemary Wells

Library of Congress
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

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

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Miller Williams

David Quinn, April 20, 2007
Edmund Wilson

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

J.D. Sloan
Dick Winters

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
C. Leonard Woolley

W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Carl Zimmer

Ben Stechshulte
Howard Zinn

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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