“The greatest philosopher of the twentieth century.”
Werner Erhard (1935) Critical Thinker and Author
Werner Erhard on L. Ron Hubbard — quoted in [L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?, 1987, Bent Corydon and Ronald DeWolf, 15, 0818404442]
Attributed
2001-06-11
Mind Over Skepticism
John G.
Stackhouse
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Christianity Today
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/june11/19.74.html
“The greatest philosopher of the twentieth century.”
Werner Erhard (1935) Critical Thinker and Author
Werner Erhard on L. Ron Hubbard — quoted in [L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?, 1987, Bent Corydon and Ronald DeWolf, 15, 0818404442]
Attributed
“Friedrich Hayek was the greatest political philosopher of liberty during the twentieth century.”
Alan O. Ebenstein (1959) American political scientist, educator and author
Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
Context: Hayek died in Freiburg, Germany, on March 23, 1992, less than two months shy of his ninety-third birthday. After 1985, he was unable to work and lost contact with almost all friends and associates. In his last years, almost the only people with whom he had regular contact were his wife, Helene; secretary Charlotte Cubitt, whom he always called “Mrs. Cubitt”; children Larry and Christine Hayek; and Bartley. Hayek was grateful to Cubitt for her assistance from 1977 to 1992. He inscribed in her copy of The Fatal Conceit in 1990: “In gratitude for all her help over so many years F. A. Hayek.”
During his last years, he had periods of more and less lucidity, as well as being ill and depressed. Lord Harris of the Institute of Economic Affairs wrote in his obituary of Hayek that “by 1989 the great man had lost touch with affairs.” He was buried in Vienna, the place of his birth.
[... ] Friedrich Hayek was the greatest political philosopher of liberty during the twentieth century.
“Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he’d stay stupid.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 17.
Gianfranco Fini (1952) Italian politician
cited in Corriere della sera http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/marzo/26/Fini_Mussolini_piu_grande_Ora_co_9_090326029.shtml, 26 March 2009, p. 14.
“The greatest evolutionist of our century.”
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) geneticist and evolutionary biologist
Stephen Jay Gould, When a Fact Is Not a Fact; Awake! magazine, July 22, 1987.
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“Perhaps the greatest novel of the century.”
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957) Sicilian writer and prince
Source: Criticism, L. P. Hartley on The Leopard, quoted in Robin Healey Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998) p. 146.
“Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.”
Gianfranco Fini (1952) Italian politician
from an interview given to Alberto Statera published in La Stampa in April 1994
“One of the greatest writers of [the 20th] century.”
Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) Irish writer and dramatist
Arthur C. Clarke, quoted on the backcover of Time and the Gods, the second volume of the Fantasy Masterworks series
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Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (New York: Schocken, 2006)
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