Favorite Philosophers?

[Whateverist]

I remember being favorably impressed with each of the philosophers you chose, OP.  Though I might choose Aristotle over Plato and his mouthpiece Socrates, since he contributed so much to the foundations of science.  Plato/Socrates always struck me as being as much rhetoricians (a dirty word as I use it) as philosophers, though that might just be the fault of the manner of Plato's exposition.  

Someone who isn't really a serious academic philosopher but made a big impression on me before I studied it in college, was Alan Watts.  If you liked Thoreau and James you might also like Watts, though Watts' woo as a percentage of his writing was much higher.

Nietzsche is thought provoking and colorful and I confess to reading a lot of what he wrote.  But I always suspected I was reading someone who was borderline paranoid and manic or on drugs.  Didn't make it any less fun of course.

I might like to include Hume and I always felt like I should have read Wittgenstein, but too late.  All I read now is novels and honestly, I've probably gotten just as much out of it. Though if I hadn't of studied philosophy I might never have gotten my head out of the clouds.