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21 figures
Pythagoras
Philosopher & mathematician
Socrates
Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher & writer
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
Aristotle
Philosopher & polymath
Confucius
Philosopher
Plato
Philosopher
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John Locke
Philosopher & physician
René Descartes
Philosopher & mathematician
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher and writer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher
Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer and philosopher
Voltaire
Writer and philosopher
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician and philosopher
Niccolò Machiavelli
Political theorist and diplomat
Thomas Aquinas
Theologian and philosopher
Abai Qunanbaiuly
Poet and philosopher
Viktor Frankl
Neurologist and psychiatrist
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher
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Laozi
Philosopher
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