“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
Source: Ninety-Three
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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
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Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse
Source: The Laughing Corpse
“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
Dante Alighieri book La Divina Comedia
Source: The Divine Comedy
“Ruling hell might be better than being a subject in hell, but not by much.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“[E]ven stupidity is better than totalitarianism.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"As I Please," Tribune (10 March 1944)<sup> http://alexpeak.com/twr/orwell/quotes/</sup> <br class="br">As I Please (1943–1947)