„What is there to say? Purely and simply this: When a bachelor of philosophy from Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the ground of his color. I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. Wren one else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men, I say that intelligence has never saved anyone; and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.“

— Frantz Fanon

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„Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.“
— Martin Heidegger
„The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.“
— Colette
„Intelligent men are dangerous.“
— Patricia Briggs
„If I seem happy to you… You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky