The significance of a work is measured in two ways – 1) in Contemporary money 2) number of lives it touches.The work of the philosophers are always measured in the second way for – even after more than 2000 years , Socrates, who said , “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing”, is still touching my life and so are Harper lee, Ayn Rand, Gandhi, R W Emerson, Rene Descartes, Confucius, Mark Twain and …