Human spirit Quote by Dan Brown

“There is a reason Dante made betrayal the deepest level of Hell”

— Dr. Laura Schlessinger

“I thought of Dante. His hells were the excess of our desires and, in the deepest circles, the pain of our victims.”

— C.D. Reiss

“And believe me, the Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church…

— Dan Brown

“The force of Dante's poetry resonated most in those who did not confess the Catholic faith, for believers would inevitably have quibbles with Dante's…

— Matthew Pearl

“Dante's Hell is part of our world as much as part of the underworld, and shouldn't be avoided, Lowell said, but rather confronted. We…

— Matthew Pearl

“Dante is the first Christian poet, the first one whose whole system of thought is colored by a pure Christian theology. But the poem…

— Matthew Pearl

“Certainly,—and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,—the observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he would, perchance, have pitied this sick…

— Victor Hugo

“ 'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe…

— Matthew Pearl

“The torment of hell is not fire and brimstone, pitchforks and claws, or, as Dante supposed, aimless wandering, unsatisfied lust, icy rain, foul swamps,…

— Ron Phillips

“To do nothing is to welcome Dante’s hell - cramped and starving, weltering in Sin. And so boldly I have taken action. Some will…

— Dan Brown

“For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too…

— Friedrich Nietzsche