Philosophers and Historians
- Abhinavagupta, (ca. 950-1020), one of India's greatest philosophers, mystics and aestheticians
- Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920 – 2009), intellectual, archaeologist, historian, linguist
- Anandavardhana (820-890), philosopher and author of the Dhvanyaloka
- Bhaskara, notable writer on the Kashmir Shaivism
- Bhatta Kallata, a notable Shaivite thinker
- Gopi Krishna (1903–1980), writer and mystic
- Jonaraja (15th century), historian and poet
- Kalhana (12th century), historian and author of Rajatarangini
- Kshemaraja (10th century), philosopher and a disciple of Abhinavagupta
- Lalleshwari (1320–1392), saint-poetess
- Prajna Bhatta (16th century), historian
- Somananda (875-925) a teacher of Kashmir Shaivism
- Shrivara (15th century), historian
- Subhash Kak (1947- ), writer, philosopher, and computer scientist
- Utpaladeva, a teacher of Kashmir Shaivism
- Vasugupta (860-925), author of the Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta
Read more about this topic: List Of Kashmiri People
Famous quotes containing the words philosophers and, philosophers and/or historians:
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)