Philosophers
 We owe to the Greek historian Diogenes Laertius
most of our information on the life and works of this philosopher, who,
together with Socrates and Plato, symbolise Western philosophical
inquiry. He was born in 384 B.C. in Stagira (Thrace) and died in
Chalcis (Euboea) in 322 B.C.
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 But to the public in general and
the readers of the Secret Doctrine I may repeat what I have stated all
along, and which I now clothe in the words of Montaigne: Gentlemen: "I
have here made only a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought
nothing of my own but the string that ties them".
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The philosopher who has had
most influence on the Chinese people is known in the history of thought
by the name of K'ung-fu-tzu, or Master K'ung, which the Jesuit
missionaries of Peking latinized to Confucius.
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 Nicholas Cryfts - or Krebs - was born in Kues
(Cusa), on the banks of the River Moselle, in the region of Trier, now
Germany, in 1401. His father, Johan Cryfts, a rich ship owner, died in
1451 and his mother, Catherina Roemer, in 1427.
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 The son of Ariston and a descendant of King Codrus
and Perictione, who was a descendant of the great lawgiver, Solon, he
was born in Athens in 429/28 B.C. and died in 347 B.C. His real name
was in fact Aristocles and Plato was a nickname which means
"broad-shouldered". It was apparently given to him by Ariston, his
wrestling teacher.
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 He was born between 1355 and 1360 in
Constantinople. Although we have no definite information about his
family or origins, the various authors who have researched the subject
believe that he was born into a well-to-do family, probably of an
orthodox priestly origin, so it is logical to suppose that he received
a complete education from his childhood onwards.
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 Although his exact origin is unknown, most authors,
including Porphyry, agree that he was born and raised on the Ionian
island of Samos, around 560 B.C.
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 The greatest of the philosophers was born in
Alopeka, a town in Attica in the year 470 B.C. His father,
Sophroniscus, was a sculptor and his mother, Phaenarete, a midwife - a
profession to which Socrates often alluded, comparing it to his
philosophical method, mayeutics (from the Greek maieuo, to cause to be
born).
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 Aurelius Augustinus was born in the city of Tagaste
(Numidia), in the year 354 A.D. His mother, a devoted Christian later
to be known as St. Monica, tried to instil the faith in him from an
early age, which the young Augustine resisted, considering it to be
intellectually confused.
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