Great minds worth reading

Just a list of great writers and philosophers that I think everyone should know about.  Google them to learn about them and if you can, at least try and read a few quotes, if not their writings. (I'll be constantly adding to this list as I remember people I've enjoyed)

Aristotle
Avicenna
Camus
Joseph Campbell
Bruce Chatwin
Einstein
Emerson
Epicurus
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Ben Franklin
Buckminster Fuller
Steven Hawking
Herodotus
Ghandi
Jefferson
Immanuel Kant
Nietzche
Palladio
Plato
Carl Sagan
D.T. Suzuki
Thomas Aquinas
Thoreau
Tolkein
Twain
Vitruvius