Well you get used to your own smell until you can't perceive it anymore. Of course there are brilliant philosophers out there but for every one of them there are at least ten charlatans, which is unfortunate, because I see the need for more good philosophical thinking quite often.

I like Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, Daniel Dennett and Richard David Precht. Although I don't argee with everything they say I still think they are among the better ones. Of course there are more but those are just off the top of my head. Zizek is also fun to listen to, but brilliant is maybe an overstatement.

@DeeTee
Indeed, I stole this phrase from Zappa
He was a very witty guy.