- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Anthony Powell
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Slavenka Drakulić
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Epictetus
- A.J. Ayer
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Johannes Kepler
- François Rabelais
- Jerold H. Israel
- Edward Crankshaw
- Hart Crane
- Moses Hadas
- S.E. Frost Jr.
- Curzio Malaparte
- David Berman
- Robert J. Knecht
- Seymour Feldman
- Carole Fabricant