By writer
Authors
The voices this desk keeps. Western, philosophical, and built to hang on a wall.
Abraham Lincoln
1809–1865 · American
Aesop
c. 620–564 BC · Greek
Aristotle
384–322 BC · Greek
Augustine
354–430 · Roman African
Bertrand Russell
1872–1970 · English
Chateaubriand
1768–1848 · French
Cicero
106–43 BC · Roman
Diderot
1713–1784 · French
Dostoevsky
1821–1881 · Russian
Edmund Burke
1729–1797 · Irish
Emerson
1803–1882 · American
Epictetus
c. 50–135 · Greek
Epicurus
341–270 BC · Greek
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896–1940 · American
Francis Bacon
1561–1626 · English
Franklin
1706–1790 · American
Franz Schubert
1797–1828 · Austrian
G. K. Chesterton
1874–1936 · English
George Bernard Shaw
1856–1950 · Irish
Goethe
1749–1832 · German
H. L. Mencken
1880–1956 · American
H. P. Lovecraft
1890–1937 · American
Hector Berlioz
1803–1869 · French
Heine
1797–1856 · German
Hemingway
1899–1961 · American
Heraclitus
c. 535–475 BC · Greek
Herodotus
c. 484–425 BC · Greek
Horace
65–8 BC · Roman
James Joyce
1882–1941 · Irish
James Madison
1751–1836 · American
Jefferson
1743–1826 · American
Jonathan Swift
1667–1745 · Irish
Kant
1724–1804 · German
Kierkegaard
1813–1855 · Danish
La Rochefoucauld
1613–1680 · French
Machiavelli
1469–1527 · Florentine
Marcus Aurelius
121–180 · Roman
Mark Twain
1835–1910 · American
Michel Foucault
1926–1984 · French
Montaigne
1533–1592 · French
Montesquieu
1689–1755 · French
Nietzsche
1844–1900 · German
Oscar Wilde
1854–1900 · Irish
Pascal
1623–1662 · French
Plato
c. 428–348 BC · Greek
Proverb
— · Various
Samuel Johnson
1709–1784 · English
Schopenhauer
1788–1860 · German
Seneca
c. 4 BC–AD 65 · Roman
Shakespeare
1564–1616 · English
Socrates
c. 470–399 BC · Greek
Spinoza
1632–1677 · Dutch
Thomas Paine
1737–1809 · English-American
Thoreau
1817–1862 · American
Thucydides
c. 460–400 BC · Greek
Tocqueville
1805–1859 · French
Voltaire
1694–1778 · French
William Hazlitt
1778–1830 · English
Wittgenstein
1889–1951 · Austrian