Anaxarchus

“Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?” exclaimed Macedonian emperor, Alexander the Great, to his courtiers.
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Anaxagoras

“Men would live very peacefully if these two words- my and yours- were taken away,” said Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, a lesser known pre-Socratic thinker.
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Paramenides

Later thinkers such as Socrates and Plato praised Parmenides while Aristotle dubbed him as “stark mad” after studying his works.
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