Dedication
Everything changes.
Nothing lasts.
You are not alone.
To those who offered an immortal contribution to the human project.
To the Astronauts:
Neil Armstrong
To the Magicians:
Harry Houdini
, James Randi
To the Comedians:
George Carlin
, Groucho Marx
, Lenny Bruce
, Lucille Ball
, Patrice O'Neal
, Richard Pryor
, Robin Williams
To the Inventors:
Alexander Graham Bell
, Buckminster Fuller
, Enzo Ferrari
, Henry Bessemer
, Henry Ford
, Leonardo da Vinci
, Nikola Tesla
, Steve Jobs
, Thomas Edison
To the Artists:
Andy Warhol
, Anne Truitt
, Ansel Adams
, Frank Gelett Burgess
, Frida Kahlo
, Georgia O'Keeffe
, Jean Michel Basquiat
, Louise Bourgeois
, Maurits Cornelis Escher
, Milton Glaser
, Pablo Picasso
, Salvador Dali
, Vincent Van Gogh
, Yousuf Karsh
To the Scientists:
Albert Hofmann
, Albert Einstein
, Alan Turing
, Alexander Fleming
, Alexander Shulgin
, Carl Sagan
, David Bohm
, E. O. Wilson
, Edward Teller
, Enrico Fermi
, Ernest Rutherford
, Erwin Schrodinger
, George Gamow
, Grace Hopper
, Heinz von Foerster
, Isaac Newton
, J. Robert Oppenheimer
, James Clerk Maxwell
, Leo Szilard
, Ludwig Boltzmann
, Marie Curie
, Marvin Minsky
, Mary Somerville
, Max Planck
, Michael Faraday
, Niels Bohr
, Paul Dirac
, Richard Feynman
, Richard Lewontin
, Robert Gordon Wasson
, Stephen Hawking
, Stephen Jay Gould
, Werner Heisenberg
, Wolfgang Pauli
To the Existentialists:
Albert Camus
, Friedrich Nietzsche
, Fyodor Dostoevsky
, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
, Martin Heidegger
, Simone De Beauvoir
, Søren Kierkegaard
To the Psychologists:
Abraham Maslow
, Albert Ellis
, BF Skinner
, Carl Jung
, Carl Rogers
, Erich Fromm
, Erik Erikson
, Ernest Becker
, Frantz Fanon
, Ivan Pavlov
, Jean Piaget
, Karen Horney
, Sigmund Freud
, Ulric Neisser
, Viktor Frankl
, Wilhelm Wundt
, William James
To the Musicians:
Billie Holiday
, Bob Marley
, Chuck Berry
, David Bowie
, Duke Ellington
, Ella Fitzgerald
, Ernest Bloch
, Frank Sinatra
, Frank Zappa
, Franz Liszt
, Freddie Mercury
, Frédéric Chopin
, George Harrison
, James Brown
, Janis Joplin
, Jim Morrison
, Jimi Hendrix
, Johann Sebastian Bach
, John Lennon
, Johnny Cash
, Josephine Baker
, Kurt Cobain
, Leonard Cohen
, Ludwig van Beethoven
, Marvin Gaye
, Miles Davis
, Pete Seeger
, Prince
, Ravi Shankar
, The Notorious B.I.G.
, Thelonious Monk
, Tom Petty
, Tupac Shakur
, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
To the Poets:
Alain LeRoy Locke
, Allen Ginsberg
, Alfred Tennyson
, Anatole France
, Anna Akhmatova
, Anne Sexton
, Arthur Rimbaud
, Charles Baudelaire
, Charles Bukowski
, Christina Rossetti
, Czeslaw Milosz
, Dante Alighieri
, Delmore Schwartz
, Derek Walcott
, Diane di Prima
, Dorothy Parker
, Dylan Thomas
, E. E. Cummings
, Elizabeth Browning
, Emily Dickinson
, Ezra Pound
, Faiz Ahmed Faiz
, Federico García Lorca
, Ferdowsi
, Frederic W.H. Myers
, Gabriela Mistral
, Geoffrey Chaucer
, Giuseppe Ungaretti
, Gwendolyn Brooks
, Hafiz
, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
, Ikkyu
, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
, John Donne
, John Keats
, John Milton
, Kabir Das
, Khalil Gibran
, Langston Hughes
, Lord Byron
, Mary Oliver
, Matthew Arnold
, Maya Angelou
, Octavio Paz
, Ogden Nash
, Oscar Wilde
, Pablo Neruda
, Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Philip Larkin
, Rabindranath Tagore
, Rainer Maria Rilke
, Robert Frost
, Robert Hayden
, Robert Lowell
, Rumi
, Ryokan Taigu
, Salvatore Quasimodo
, Shel Silverstein
, Sylvia Plath
, T.S. Eliot
, Ted Hughes
, Terrence McKenna
, Theodore Roethke
, Tomas Tranströmer
, Tristan Tzara
, Vicente Aleixandre
, Virgil
, W. B. Yeats
, Wallace Stevens
, Walt Whitman
, William Blake
, William Carlos Williams
, William Cowper
, William Shakespeare
, William Wordsworth
, Wislawa Szymborska
To the Occultists:
Aleister Crowley
, Austin Osman Spare
, Dion Fortune
, Éliphas Lévi
, Franz Bardon
, Giordano Bruno
, Hermes Trismegistus
, Jack Parsons
, Lois Bourne
, Madame Blavatsky
, Manly P. Hall
, Samael Aun Weor
, Sybil Leek
, William Robert Woodman
, William Wynn Westcott
To the Chefs:
Anthony Bourdain
, Julia Childs
To the Explorers:
Jacques Cousteau
, Junko Tabei
To the Mathematicians:
Benoit Mandelbrot
, Blaise Pascal
, Carl Friedrich Gauss
, Henri Poincaré
, John von Neumann
, Kurt Gödel
To the Directors:
Akira Kurosawa
, Alfred Hitchcock
, Ingmar Bergman
, Maya Deren
, Orson Welles
, Stanley Kubrick
To the Theologians:
Anselm of Canterbury
, Augustine of Hippo
, John Henry Newman
, Martin Luther
, Mircea Eliade
, Thomas Aquinas
To the Generals:
Carl von Clausewitz
, George Patton
, George Washington
, Ghenghis Khan
, Hannibal
, Napoleon Bonaparte
, Sitting Bull
, Tecumseh
, Thucydides
To the Athletes:
Althea Gibson
, Arthur Ashe
, Jackie Robinson
, Joe DiMaggio
, Kobe Bryant
, Mickey Mantle
, Muhammad Ali
, Ted Williams
, Ty Cobb
, Wilt Chamberlain
, Yogi Berra
To the Actors:
Carrie Fisher
, Cary Grant
, Chadwick Boseman
, Charlie Chaplin
, Douglas Fairbanks
, Elizabeth Taylor
, Fred Rogers
, Heath Ledger
, Hedy Lamarr
, Humphrey Bogart
, James Dean
, John Wayne
, Marilyn Monroe
, Marlon Brando
, Paul Newman
, Sean Connery
, Sidney Poitier
To the Capitalists:
Andrew Carnegie
, Clayton Christensen
, Coco Chanel
, Cornelius Vanderbilt
, David Ogilvy
, Estee Lauder
, J.P. Morgan
, John D. Rockefeller
, Leo Burnett
, P.T. Barnum
, Tony Hsieh
, Walt Disney
To the Teachers:
Adi Shankara
, Ajahn Chah
, Anandamayi Ma
, Anthony De Mello
, Aryadeva
, Baba Nanak
, Bob Ross
, Bodhidharma
, Chögyam Trungpa
, Hakuin Ekaku
, Jesus of Nazareth
, Mahasi Sayadaw
, Lalleshwari
, Meera
, Milarepa
, Mirra Alfassa
, Padampa Sangye
, Padmasambhava
, Papaji
, Paramahansa Yogananda
, Ram Dass
, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
, Ramana Maharshi
, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
, Siddhartha Gautama
, Sri Swami Satchidananda
, Swami Vivekananda
, Thich Nhat Hanh
, Timothy Leary
, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
, Zoroaster
To the Leaders:
Abraham Lincoln
, Alexander Hamilton
, Alexander The Great
, Ben Franklin
, Benazir Bhutto
, Benjamin Disraeli
, Booker T. Washington
, Catherine the Great
, Cesare Borgia
, Charlemagne
, Charles de Gaulle
, Che Guevara
, Colin Powell
, Crazy Horse
, Desmond Tutu
, Dwight D. Eisenhower
, Elenor Roosevelt
, Florence Nightingale
, Franklin D. Roosevelt
, Frederick Douglass
, Gandhi
, Geronimo
, Harriet Tubman
, Henry Ward Beecher
, Huey Newton
, Jane Adamms
, John Adams
, John Jay
, John Lewis
, John McCain
, Malcolm X
, Malidoma Patrice Somé
, Marcus Tullius Cicero
, Margaret Sanger
, Margaret Thatcher
, Martin Luther King Jr
, Mary Parker Follett
, Rosa Parks
, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
, Samuel Adams
, Sarojini Naidu
, Saul Alinsky
, Shirley Chisholm
, Sojourner Truth
, Thomas Jefferson
, Thomas Woodrow Wilson
, Wangari Maathai
, William Jennings Bryan
, Winston Churchill
To the Philosophers:
Alfred North Whitehead
, Alexis de Tocqueville
, Alan Watts
, Aristotle
, Arthur Schopenhauer
, Aurobindo Ghose
, Auguste Comte
, Baruch Spinoza
, Bertrand Russell
, Boethius
, Claude Lévi-Strauss
, Confucius
, D.T. Suzuki
, David Hume
, Denis Diderot
, Dogen Zenji
, Douglas Harding
, Edith Stein
, Edmund Burke
, Edmund Husserl
, Émile Durkheim
, Epictetus
, Erasmus
, Ferdinand de Saussure
, Francis Bacon
, Friedrich Engels
, G. K. Chesterton
, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
, George Berkeley
, George Gurdjieff
, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
, Hannah Arendt
, Henri Bergson
, Henri Lefebvre
, Henry Sidgwick
, Heraclitus
, Herbert Marcuse
, Herbert Spencer
, Immanuel Kant
, Inayat Khan
, Ivan Illich
, Jacques Lacan
, James P. Carse
, Jean de La Bruyère
, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
, Jean-Paul Sartre
, Jeremy Benthem
, Jiddu Krishnamurti
, John Dewey
, John Locke
, John Rawls
, John Stuart Mill
, José Ortega y Gasset
, Ju Mipham
, Karl Marx
, Karl Popper
, Lao Tzu
, Leo Strauss
, Lucretius
, Ludwig Wittgenstein
, Machiavelli
, Margaret Mead
, Marshall McLuhan
, Michel de Montaigne
, Mikhail Bakhtin
, Montesquieu
, Moses Maimonides
, Mozi
, Nagarjuna
, Niklas Luhmann
, Parmenides
, Pierre Bayle
, Plato
, Plutarch
, Pythagoras
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, Rene Girard
, Robert Nozick
, Simone Weil
, Socrates
, Sun Tzu
, Theodor Adorno
, Thomas Hobbes
, U. G. Krishnamurti
, Voltaire
, Walter Benjamin
, Xenophon
, Xun Kuang
, Zhuang Zhou
To the Writers:
Agatha Christie
, Aldous Huxley
, Alexander Dumas
, Alexander Pushkin
, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
, André Breton
, Anthony Burgess
, Anton Chekhov
, Arthur Miller
, August Strindberg
, Baltasar Gracián
, C.S. Lewis
, Carlos Castaneda
, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
, Charles Dickens
, Charlotte Brontë
, Charles M. Schulz
, Chinua Achebe
, Christopher Hitchens
, D.H. Lawrence
, Dale Carnegie
, David Foster Wallace
, David Graeber
, Doreen Valiente
, Douglas Adams
, Dr. Seuss
, E. L. Doctorow
, E.M. Forster
, Earl Nightingale
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Elbert Hubbard
, Elie Wiesel
, Enid Blyton
, Ernest Hemingway
, François de La Rochefoucauld
, François Mauriac
, Frank Herbert
, Franz Kafka
, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
, Gary Halbert
, George Bernard Shaw
, George Eliot
, George Orwell
, Gertrude Stein
, Gustave Flaubert
, H.G. Wells
, Hans Christian Andersen
, Harold Bloom
, Helen Keller
, Henry James
, Herman Melville
, Hermann Hesse
, Honoré de Balzac
, Hunter S Thompson
, Isaac Asimov
, Israel Regardie
, J.R.R Tolkein
, Jack Kerouac
, Jack London
, James Baldwin
, James Joyce
, Jane Austen
, Joan Didion
, John Steinbeck
, John Updike
, Jonathan Swift
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Joseph Campbell
, Joseph Heller
, Joyce Cary
, Jules Verne
, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
, Ken Kesey
, Kurt Vonnegut
, Leo Tolstoy
, Lewis Carroll
, Marcel Proust
, Margot Adler
, Mark Twain
, Maurice Sendak
, Miguel de Cervantes
, Mikhail Bulgakov
, Nadine Gordimer
, Napoleon Hill
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Nikolai Gogol
, Nikos Kazantzakis
, Norman Mailer
, Og Mandino
, Philip Roth
, Ralph Ellison
, Raymond Buckland
, Robert Anton Wilson
, Roberto Bolan
, Roger Ebert
, Roger Zelazny
, Rudyard Kipling
, Samuel Beckett
, Samuel Johnson
, Sophocles
, Stan Lee
, Susan Sontag
, Tennessee Williams
, Terry Pratchett
, Thomas Hardy
, Thomas Mann
, Thomas Pynchon
, Tom Wolfe
, Toni Morrison
, Truman Capote
, Umberto Eco
, Upton Sinclair
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, Virginia Woolf
, Vladimir Nabokov
, W.E.B Du Bois
, Walter Lippmann
, Wayne Dyer
, William S. Burroughs
, William Faulkner
, William Gaddis
, William Golding
, Yasunari Kawabata
, Zig Ziegler
, Zora Neale Hurston