Nietzsche had syphilis, Schopenhauer hated Hegel, Socrates was fat.
I want to hear more philosophy based rumours, got some?
Read Wittgentstein’s Poker.
Schopenhauer too? Or did you mean Kierkegaard?
What does it contain?
Yeah, Schopes too. I read somewhere that he used to deliberately set up lectures at the same time as Hegel gave his, but whilst Hegel was getting hundreds of people as an audience, Schopenhauer only had a handful. I think Schopenhauer was barely known in his lifetime but I’m not sure.
Richard Dawkins is a Christian.
Poppycock!
Wittgenstein and Popper had a tempestuous love afair.
That was funny.
I actually edited the wikipedia page on Aristotle to say that he was an alcoholic who was known for abusing his family. Lasted about 15 seconds on there. If you like to take screenshots of hilarious shit that’s a good place to do it.
BUMP
Schop also pushed an old lady down the stairs for talking too loud outside his front door. She was physically injured and Schop was ordered by the courts to regularly give her money until she died.
This thread is far too good for Rant, so moved to MB… oh, and welcome back Cheegster 
Kant suffered constipation. (Kaufmann).
Wittgenstein would go into a movie theater and could sit there for hours and hours, regardless of what was playing, or whether it was even worth watching.
Socrates had an ugly wife.
Young Kierkegaard attended a brothel. (Will Durant).
Loving all of these rumours. Also…
How much truth is there in that? He sounds like an absolute loon.
This is and always was my favourite thread. Thinking of selling a bi-annual magazine like Heat or Okay!, but only with philosophers and other intellects.
It’s true. He had to compensate her for the rest of her life.
When she died, he apparently quipped “anus obit, onus abit” (the old woman is dead, the debt is paid).
Wittgenstein’s Poker is a good read for philosophical gossip.
Hume and Rousseau were friends for a while, Hume helped R out no end, was very generous towards him, R was paranoid to the point of mental illness and treated H like shit.
There were no stairs, but yeah @cheegster @Only_Humean