A hundred philosophers. And their thoughts condensed into 17 syllables. An endeavor not easy but certainly challenging, sometimes entertaining, for someone who set out to marry the analytical discourse of Western philosophy with the dense, minimalist form of Eastern poetry. And the marriage not always "sacred," as purebred philosophers would desire, but also somewhat sarcastic, as a poet who reads philosophy in his own ulterior and sometimes oblique way intended.

Philosophers included:
- Thales
- Anaximander
- Heraclitus
- Anaximenes
- Xenophanes
- Pythagoras
- Parmenides
- Anaxagoras
- Empedocles
- Zeno of Elea
- Socrates
- Democritus
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Epicurus
- Seneca
- Marcus Aurelius
- Sextus Empiricus
- Tertullian
- Origen
- Plotinus
- Augustine
- Boethius
- Avicenna
- Anselm
- Abelard
- Averroes
- Moses Maimonides
- Thomas Aquinas
- John Duns Scotus
- William of Ockham
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Michel de Montaigne
- Francis Bacon
- Thomas Hobbes
- Rene Descartes
- Blaise Pascal
- Baruch Spinoza
- John Locke
- Gottfried Leibniz
- George Berkeley
- Francois-Marie d'Arouet (Voltaire)
- David Hume
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Adam Smith
- Immanuel Kant
- Edmund Burke
- Jeremy Bentham
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- G.W.F. Hegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- John Stuart Mill
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Karl Marx
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- William James
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Gottlob Frege
- Edmund Husserl
- John Dewey
- Henri Bergson
- Max Weber
- Bertrand Russell
- G.E. Moore
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Martin Heidegger
- Rudolf Carnap
- Max Horkheimer
- Herbert Marcuse
- Gilbert Ryle
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Jacques Lacan
- Karl Popper
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Hannah Arendt
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Willard van Orman Quine
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- Simone Weil
- A.J. Ayer
- Alan Turing
- Albert Camus
- Donald Davidson
- John Rawls
- Thomas Kuhn
- Paul Feyerabend
- Gilles Deleuze
- Michel Foucault
- Noam Chomsky
- Bernard Williams
- Jurgen Habermas
- Jacques Derrida
- Richard Rorty
- Alain Badiou
- Robert Nozick
- Giorgio Agamben
- Martha Nussbaum