Which philosopher has been your greatest influence?

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St. Thomas Aquinas-heavily influences my belief in God; from a philisophical standpoint and not a religious standpoint. 
Locke influences my politics in a basic way, but I don't know much about him. 
If you want to call him one like opebo does, Sigmund Freud.  Freud is too highly ridiculed by the modern media as a 'sexist pig', but he did contribute a lot to psychology and he is right about a great many things.
Socrates-because his method of questioning everything makes the world more understandable in a specific sense.
And finally, Rene' Descarte, for making me look at the world in a really weird way. Ex-I cannot prove this computer I'm typing on exists, yet I can because my thoughts confirm my existence.

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My math teacher.

nerd   

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waiting for Killerpollo to say "Hitler" 

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At the risk of adding fuel to the thread about me, Jfern, and Bush....

Jesus Christ would be my favorite philosopher.

Jfern and Bush are philosophers?
I thought one was president and the other didn't think that that one was president.  Nothing philosophical about that.

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St. Thomas Aquinas-heavily influences my belief in God; from a philisophical standpoint and not a religious standpoint. 
Locke influences my politics in a basic way, but I don't know much about him. 
If you want to call him one like opebo does, Sigmund Freud.  Freud is too highly ridiculed by the modern media as a 'sexist pig', but he did contribute a lot to psychology and he is right about a great many things.
Socrates-because his method of questioning everything makes the world more understandable in a specific sense.
And finally, Rene' Descarte, for making me look at the world in a really weird way. Ex-I cannot prove this computer I'm typing on exists, yet I can because my thoughts confirm my existence.

Add to list Ayn Rand, Aristotle, Locke, deTocqueville