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Your favorite philosopher?

For me it has to be Democritus on the sole notion that he thought about the atom and was more or less correct 2000 years before anyone could prove that he was correct.

A lot Plato's works are also very good and sometimes have me wondering where the world would have been today, if the Greek schools of philosophy had not been closed by the zealots of the early christian church. Thank goodness for the Arabic scholars that preserved these works of wisdom when the christian church did it's best to make sure everyone was kept ignorant.
 
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Viktor Frankl, Anthony de Mello, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
 
Oh, I found a quotation by that Jesus person: "Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." He sounds like a Jihadist to me. Was he really a philosopher?
 
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If it's a good enough answer for Republican presidential candidates, shouldn't it be good enough for me?
 
Got to be the (previously named) Epicurus for me... though I confess I haven't studied his philosophy in any great depth...

From Wikipedia:
"For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia—peace and freedom from fear—and aponia—the absence of pain—and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and evil, that death is the end of the body and the soul and should therefore not be feared, that the gods do not reward or punish humans, that the universe is infinite and eternal, and that events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of atoms moving in empty space."

Not far off then, in my view.
 
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