Intellectual

🇫🇷Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy

Existentialism

1905–1980

"...in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it."

🇮🇪Samuel Beckett

Literature

Nouveau Roman

1906–1989

"The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in."

🇺🇸Adrianne Wadewitz

Music

1977–2014

"Wadewitz was probably best known as a longtime Wikipedia editor. She edited her first entry in 2004, and went on to create pages for female writers, scholars, and their works, editing nearly 50,000 posts in total"

🇮🇳Zakir Naik

Politics

b. 1965

"You believe whatever you hear? Then hear from me!"

🇹🇷Fethullah Gülen

Literature

Sufism

1941–2024

"Erdogan’s accusation is no surprise, not for what it says about me but rather for what it reveals about his systematic and dangerous drive toward one-man rule."

Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Law

780–855

"'If the scholars remains silent the grounds of dissimulation , and the ignorant do not know, when will the truth be manifested?'"

🇫🇷Alain Finkielkraut

Literature

New Philosophers

b. 1949

"DeMaistre and Bonald … wanted to teach men submission, to give them the religion of established power, to substitute, in Bonald’s phrase, “the evidence of authority for the authority of evidence."