Brilliance Quote by Emma Goldman

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology' with his…

— Noam Chomsky

Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In…

— Peter Drucker

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

— Roberto Benigni

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling: the shock…

— Gabriel García Márquez

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not…

— Russell Kirk

“He was one of those persons whom one loves not because of some lustrous streak of talent (this retired businessman possessed none), but because…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“…it seemed to Kirsch that the most reliable guide to the mental landscape of a patient was the patient himself. He was better placed…

— Philip Sington

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the…

— Allen Ginsberg