Famous INTJs

I - Introverso - Normalmente se energizam quando esto isolados e pensativos.

N - iNtuio - Trabalham melhor com informaes tericas e abstratas, interpretando a realidade que os cercam.
T - Razo (Thinking) - Lidam melhor com a lgica. Por isso so mais racionais que emotivos.
J - Julgamento - Pensam para depois agir. So controladores.

Isaac Newton
Physicist
Newton: "I can calculate the
motion of heavenly bodies, but not
the madness of people."
[Addressing a critic:]
Newton: "I have studied these
things - you have not."

[Speaking about his work on
mechanics:]
Newton: "Mechanics [has been]
distinguished from geometry, as
what is perfectly accurate from
what is less so. But the errors are
not in the art, but in the artificers."
John Maynard Keynes: "Newton
was not the first of the age of
reason. He was the last of the
magicians."

Karl Marx
Philosopher, student of Hegel
Marx: "Philosophers have hitherto
only interpreted the world in
various ways; the point is to
change it."
Marx: "[I do not] care one straw for
popularity."
Marx: "[My] chief characteristic [is]
singleness of purpose [and my]
idea of happiness [is] to fight."
Marx: "It is a bad thing to perform
menial duties ... to fight with
pinpricks, instead of clubs."
Ayn Rand: "Karl Marx [was] the
most consistent translator of the
altruist morality into practical
action."
Ludwig von Mises: "All the
sophisticated syllogisms ... cannot
conceal [that] Marx was a prophet
communicating [a] revelation."

Ayn Rand
Author of 'Atlas Shrugged' and radical
capitalist
Rand: "While animals survive by
adjusting themselves to their
background, man survives by
adjusting his background to
himself."
Rand: "Love is not self-sacrifice,
but the assertion of your own
needs and values. It is for your
own happiness that you need the
person you love."
Rand: "I will never live for the sake
of another man, nor ask another
man to live for mine."
Rand: "In philosophy, I can only
recommend the three A's:
Aristotle,Aquinas, and Ayn Rand."
Kelley L. Ross: "Few writers
convey an irresistible ferocity of
convictions as Rand does."

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher
Nietzsche: "What is good? All that
heightens the feeling of power,
power itself in man. What is bad?
All that proceeds from weakness."
Nietzsche: "Active, successful
natures shun the dictum 'know
thyself' and follow the
commandment: 'Will thyself.'"
Nietzsche: "Not all men ought to
be free. There are many who threw
off their final worth when they
threw off their bondage."

Mark Zuckerberg
CEO of Facebook
Zuckerberg: "[I'm] going to change
the world."
Zuckerberg: "I think that the next
five years are going to be
characterized by widespread
acknowledgement by [others] ...
that [my way] is the way that stuff
should be and will be better."
[Asked about users who are
dissatisfied with Facebook's
privacy options:]
Zuckerberg: "Having two identities
for yourself [is] a lack of integrity."
Sheryl Sandberg: "He is shy and
introverted and he often does not
seem very warm to people who
don't know him."

[On his first impression of
Zuckerberg:]Sean Parker: "He had

Elon Musk
Founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors,
founder of PayPal along with Peter
Thiel
Musk: "My career has been
focused on finding practical,
effective solutions to real-world
problems."
Musk: "[I started SpaceX because]
if we're not on a path of ...
expanding to the stars, then what
we're effectively saying is [that]
we're going to consign ourselves
to Earth until an extinction event
wipes us out."
[His brother:] "Elon's psyche is
tied up in the idea of changing the
world."
Jon Stewart [to Musk:] "I am
astonished at your entrepreneurial
spirit, your tenacity, and your

Bobby Fischer
Chess champion
Fischer: "Most people are sheep,
and they need the support of
others."
[On why he quit school at age 16:]
Fischer: "You have to mix with all
those stupid kids. And the
teachers are even stupider than
the kids."
Fischer: "Nobody has single-
handedly done more for the U.S.
image than me. ... [Before I came
along] the U.S. had an image of a
football country, baseball country,
but nobody thought of it as an
intellectual country. I turned all
that around single-handedly."
Boris Spassky: "[He is] absolutely
not social. He is not adaptable to
everybody's standards of life. He

Nikola Tesla
Inventor
Tesla: "My ideas have
revolutionized the industries of the
United States."
Tesla: "The ... development of man
[has as its] ultimate purpose the
complete mastery of mind over the
material world."
Tesla: "The world was not
prepared for [my work]. It was too
far ahead of time, but ... in the end
[it will be] a triumphal success."
Tesla: "If Edison had a needle to
find in a haystack, he would
proceed at once with ... diligence
... to examine straw after straw. ... I
was a sorry witness of such
doings, knowing that a little theory
and calculation would have saved
imperial tendencies."
Peter Thiel: "Yahoo tried to buy
Facebook for $1 billion. ... Many
people thought Mark was crazy for
not selling. But he always had a
plan and a vision."
ability to get things done."
Steve Jurvetson: "I don't think I've
ever seen an entrepreneur with so
much resolve."
... is unwilling to compromise."
Garry Kasparov: "Fischer had no
one besides himself to draw him
up to the heights he reached. ... I
regard him as a mythological
[creature] of sorts."
him 90% of his labor."
John Stone: "[Everyone]
misunderstood Tesla. ... He did
dream [but he made] his dreams
come true. [He had] visions but
they were of a real future, not an
imaginary one. ... [We must] admit
[he] was a prophet."

Stephen Hawking
Physicist
Hawking: "My goal is simple. It is a
complete understanding of the
universe."
Hawking: "I regard [my version of
quantum physics] as self-evidently
correct."
Hawking: "I don't believe that the
ultimate theory will come by
steady work along existing lines."
Hawking: "For millions of years,
mankind lived just like the
animals. Then [we] unleashed the
power of our imagination."
Hawking: "Philosophy is dead.
Scientists have become the
bearers of the torch of discovery
in our quest for knowledge."
Hawking: "[Kant's works are] very
obscure."
Kip Thorne: "He is the most
stubborn man I know. ... It was
clear very early on that he was a
genius, but his popular appeal
came as a surprise."

John Nash
Mathematician
Nash: "Don't ... depend on current
fashion or ... popular opinion."
Nash: "[When I am] thinking
rationally ... in the style that is
characteristic of scientists ... this
is not entirely a matter of joy."
Nash: "[One] could think
of Zarathustra as simply a
madman. ... But without his
'madness' [he would] have been
only another of the ... billions of
human individuals who have lived
and then been forgotten."
Sylvia Nasar: "Even as a student,
his indifference to others'
skepticism, doubt, and ridicule
was awesome."
Sylvia Nasar: "His heroes were
solitary thinkers and supermen
likeNewton and Nietzsche."
Sylvia Nasar: "Nash acquired his
knowledge [not] from studying
...but by [seeing the] truth for
himself. ... Einstein once chided
him for wishing to amend relativity
theory without studying physics."

John Maynard Keynes
Economist
Keynes: "The country does not
need an iron-cast economic
doctrine as long as it has me."
Keynes: "Words ought to be a little
wild, for they are the assault of
thoughts on the unthinking."
Keynes: "[Hayek's work] is an
extraordinary example of how,
starting with a mistake, a
remorseless logician can end up in
bedlam."
Roy Harrod: "Keynes [spoke] on a
great range of topics, on some of
which he was thoroughly an
expert, but on others [he had]
derived his views from the few
pages of a book at which he had
happened to glance. The air of
authority was the same in both
cases."
John Mackey: "Keynes was such a
brilliant and fascinating guy that
he hypnotized [a] whole
generation of economists."

Paul Krugman
Economist and left-wing pundit
Krugman: "[I] have been right
about everything."
Krugman: "People who disagree
with me are always wrong. And not
just wrong, they're often knaves or
fools."
Krugman: "Coming up with a good
idea, with an insight into the way
the world works that is really new
and that you really believe in, is a
deeply satisfying experience."
Krugman: "The intellectually
insecure ... have created for
themselves [an] alternative
intellectual history in which John
Maynard Keyneswas a fraud."
Krugman: "[To follow my
recommendations] requires a level
of intellectual flexibility that not
many people are going to show."
Dateline Magazine: "Paul Krugman
[has] virtually become the leader
of the opposition in America, an
unusual position for an academic
economist."

John Adams
U.S. President
Adams: "Thanks to God that he
gave me stubbornness when I
know I am right."
Adams: "Nineteen twentieths of
[mankind is] opaque and
unenlightened. Intimacy with most
people will make you acquainted
with vices and errors and follies
enough to make you despise
them."
Adams: "Politeness, delicacy [and]
decency ... are but three different
names for hypocrisy, chicanery,
and cowardice."
Benjamin Rush: "He saw the

Isaac Asimov
Science fiction writer and science
writer
Asimov: "Those people who think
they know everything are a great
annoyance to those of us who do."
Asimov: "Never let your sense of
morals get in the way of doing
what's right."
Asimov: "[People think] a scientist
is cold ... and uses only his
reason; he argues carefully step
by step, and needs no imagination.
That is all wrong. ... The true

Christopher Hitchens
J ournalist
Hitchens: "Those who are
determined to be 'offended' will
discover a provocation
somewhere. We cannot possibly
adjust enough to please the
fanatics, and it is degrading to
make the attempt."
Hitchens: "Distrust compassion;
prefer dignity for yourself and
others."
Hitchens: "[George W. Bush] is
unusually incurious, abnormally
unintelligent, amazingly
inarticulate ... and apparently quite
proud of all these things."
June Thomas: "His obituaries

H.L. Mencken
J ournalist
Mencken: "If ever a man is to
achieve anything like dignity, it
can happen only if superior men
are given absolute freedom to
think what they want to think and
say what they want to say."
Mencken: "People constantly
speak of 'the government' doing
this or that, as they might speak of
God doing it. But the government
is really nothing but a group of
men, and usually they are very
inferior men."
[In his obituary of Franklin D.
Roosevelt:]
Mencken: "[FDR] had every quality
whole of a subject at a glance, and
... was equally fearless of men and
of the consequences of [the] bold
assertion of his opinion. ... He was
a stranger to dissimulation."
scientist is quite imaginative as
well as rational, and sometimes
leaps to solutions where reason
can follow only slowly."
Asimov: "I [never tried] to hide my
superior mentality. I demonstrated
it every day ... and I never ...
thought of being 'modest' about
the matter."
were particularly refreshing,
because he refused to moderate
his opinion of the subject simply
because he or she had died."
that morons esteem in their
heroes."
Murray Rothbard: "He [was]
supremely 'inner-directed' with no
inner shame or quaking at going
against the judgment of the herd."

Martin Luther
Theologian and Protestant reformer
Luther: "Faith without deeds is
dead."
Luther: "I shall not have my
teaching judged by any man. ...
Since I am certain of it, I shall be
the judge."
Luther: "As to my always
conducting discussions with ardor
... [I am simply] overpowered by
the force of truth when ...
compelled to the discussion."
Marcus Wengstrom: "There is
something sublime about him
dragging popes and kings into his
intellectual wrestling ring and
handling them with the roughness
of a miner's son."
[Unnamed eyewitness:] "[He is] a
little too insolent in his reproaches
and more caustic than is prudent
for an innovator in religion." [Upon
meeting Luther around 1519.]

G.W.F. Hegel
Philosopher, mentor of Marx
Hegel: "[I] want to restore the
human race to its full totality."
Hegel: "It is easier to discover a
deficiency in individuals ... than to
see their real import or value."
Hegel: "[My thought] is by its
nature something esoteric, neither
made for the mob nor capable of
being prepared for the mob."
Hegel: "What is rational is actual
and what is actual is rational."
Hegel: "Heraclitus is the one who
... first grasped Being. ... The
origin of philosophy is to be dated
from Heraclitus."
Isaak von Sinclair [in a personal
letter to Hegel:] "You are guided
more by your gift of synthesis than
by calm analysis."

Heraclitus
Greek philosopher - "The Dark One"
Heraclitus: "One man is worth ten
thousand if he is extraordinary."
Heraclitus: "Most men have sated
themselves like cattle. ... Greater
men are allotted greater
destinies."
Constantine J. Vamvacas:
"[Heraclitus'] meanings are not
crystallized but inhere in integral
images and visions, grasped as an
indissoluble whole."
Daniel W. Graham: "Heraclitus
liked to abuse his predecessors,
and he tends to radically rework
the material he inherits."
Eva Brann: "If Heraclitus was a
physicist, he, like Newton, was at
the same time also a mystic."
Friedrich Nietzsche: "[Heraclitus
had] the highest form of pride
[stemming] from a certainty of
belief in the truth as grasped by
himself alone."

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher and Marxist ideologue,
dated Simone de Beauvoir
Sartre: "As far as men are
concerned, it is not what they are
that interests me but what they
can become."
Sartre: "You are nothing else but
what you live. ... A man is no more
than a series of undertakings [and]
the sum of the organization that
constitutes these undertakings."
Simone de Beauvoir: "The ...
dogged tenacity of his perceptions
grasped the very essence of
things."
Simone de Beauvoir: "[Sartre]
knew what he wanted to do. ... His
self-confidence obviously
stemmed from so unshakeable a
determination that one day, in one
way or another [his work] would
bear fruit."

Vladimir Lenin
Dictator of the Soviet Union, mentor
of Stalin
Lenin: "Trust is good. Control is
better."
Lenin: "Thought is by its nature
capable of giving, and does give,
absolute truth."
Nina Tumarkin: "Lenin was a very
... bossy, self-centered, competent
and smart child."
Leon Trotsky: "[Lenin] was
irrevocably controlled by one ...

Anders Breivik
Terrorist and manifesto-writer
Breivik: "It's human nature to be
selfish, to seek admiration. ... We
strive to be as perfect as we can
be."
Breivik: "I sound quite self-
righteous at times and I don't like
admitting it when I'm wrong."
Breivik: "I have a relatively inflated
ego, with a constant need to feed
on an intellectual level."

Ted Kaczynski
"The Unabomber" - terrorist and
manifesto-writer
Kaczynski: "Art forms that appeal
to [leftists] tend to focus on ...
defeat and despair ... as if there
were no hope of accomplishing
anything through rational
calculation."
Kaczynski: "The leftist is anti-
individualistic ... He is not the sort
of person who has an inner sense
of confidence in his own ability to
solve his own problems and

Varg Vikernes
Murderer, arsonist and musician
Vikernes: "If you imagine a thing
happening in your head, you will
make it happen - that is, if your
willpower is strong enough."
Vikernes: "I [have] nothing but
contempt for the braindead 'sex,
drugs and rock and roll' attitude of
the other [musicians]. ... [They just
want] to become famous, to make
money and to get laid - and not to
change the world."
Vikernes: "[Because of my]
comparing of black metallers with
... negroes and homosexuals ... I
am [considered] both a vile racist
idea: the goal. He was probably
the most extreme utilitarian ...
history has produced."
Hans Mortensen: "[Those] who did
not share Lenin's interpretation
[of Marx] were showered in insults
and abuse and pronounced to be
absolutely worthless. He would
break even with his closest friends
if they did not share his vision
entirely."
Breivik: "I've generally been
perceived as quite arrogant
... [because] I do not care ... for
creating or preserving social
relationships."
Breivik: "I do not accept or
acknowledge many of the
established 'social rules'. I view
them as irrelevant noise."
satisfy his own needs."
Kaczynski: "It is obvious that
[leftists] are not cool-headed
logicians systematically analyzing
the foundations of knowledge.
They are deeply involved
emotionally in their attack on truth
and reality."
The Telegraph: "[Anders
Breivik plagiarized] almost a dozen
key passages from [Kaczynski's]
manifesto, only [replacing]
particular words such as 'leftist'
with 'cultural Marxist.'"
and homophobic. ... The problem
is that my remarks aren't really
homophobic. What I do is simply
point out the obvious."