Edit: I love imagining random historical figures this way though like just some random loser who got lucky and not like a SAGE or whatever... or kind of weird and rambling like me and maybe he had some random speech impediment
Edit: forgot what wiki article I was reading but Issac Newton believed in chemtrails or something
Edit: I'm serious just he had a different theory like if you rearrange the Bible 57 times it spells "Barney the singing cat" or something I assume like BIBLE SECRETS or whatever
Some of the old philosophers are really great characters. One of my favourites is Fichte (first names Johann Gottlieb, (Gottlieb! (it translates to Love of God and sounds awesome in German))) who always boasted to his pupils that the only man who ever really understood his writings was Kant, and even he got it wrong most of the time. Like he was famous for writing deliberately obscure texts apparently trying to mimick Kant's style (he was Kant's pupil) and then boasted about how nobody understood them.
Or there was this thing in the early 20th century called the Wien circle, a bunch of positivists who basically thought that everything that isn't empirical science is bullshit and science can solve all problems and all this metaphysics and aesthetics and whatnot is complete bullshit. Wittgenstein was their eternal champion for his "most philosophical problems are only problems of language" stuff and I have always imagined (this is actually something me and Ramci made up once) these douchebag Wien circle guys holding their meetings and inviting Wittgenstein who is kinda embarrassed all the time and trying say "Ummmm, guys, that's not what I said at all" and they just insist that he shut up and have some more wine, the greatest thinker of our time, our hero!
Ahahhaha, I was right, I just hit Vienna circle in wikipedia and found this:
" - - Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus formed the basis for the group's philosophy[1] (although Wittgenstein himself insisted that logical positivism was a gross misreading of his thinking, and took to reading poetry during meetings of the Vienna Circle)."