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INTJ
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, power itself
in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness."
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INTJ
Karl Marx
Philosopher
"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in
various ways; the point is to change it."
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INTJ
Ayn Rand
Philosopher and author
"While animals survive by adjusting themselves to
their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."
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INTJ
Isaac Newton
Physicist
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies,
but not the madness of people."
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INTJ
Augustus
Emperor of Rome
"I found Rome brick and left it marble."
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INTJ
John Maynard Keynes
Economist
"The country does not need an iron-cast economic doctrine as long as it has me."
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INTJ
Christopher Hitchens
Journalist
"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."
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INTJ
Bobby Fischer
Chess champion
"When I won the World Championship, 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."
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About INTJs
- Tenacious visionaries, oriented towards action
- Amongst the types with the highest average IQ
- Strongly linked to the Narcissistic personality
- Somewhat linked to the Schizotypal personality
- More common in men than in women
- Repress their Extroverted Sensing function, which means they may lose touch with factual realities and fail to adapt their opinions accordingly
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INTJ Functions
1. Dominant: |
Introverted Intuition |
2. Auxiliary: |
Extroverted Thinking |
3. Tertiary: |
Introverted Feeling |
4. Inferior: |
Extroverted Sensing |
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More About INTJs
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Demographics
While demographical data on Jungian type is unreliable, the following figures are commonly accepted as
guidelines:
Total: 1.5%
Male: 2.5%
Female: 0.5%
The rarest type amongst females |
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INFP
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher
"My heart is at once haughty and tender and my
character effeminate, yet invincible."
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INFP
Soeren Kierkegaard
Philosopher
"To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to
attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous."
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INFP
Albert Camus
Philosopher
"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that
we know where it lives: Inside ourselves."
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INFP
George Orwell
Author
"My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."
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INFP
Virginia Woolf
Author
"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,
soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?"
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INFP
William Blake
Poet
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
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INFP
John Milton
Poet
"He who reigns within himself and rules passions,
desires, and fears is more than a king."
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INFP
Thomas S. Kuhn
Philosopher
"After paradigms change ... you may ... reconstruct why people
believed what they did. And do you want to say it's partly right and partly wrong? No ... You can't divide what
they were thinking up that way."
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About INFPs
- Idiosyncratic dreamers with strong imaginations
- Strongly linked to the Avoidant personality
- Somewhat linked to the Dependent, Histrionic and Negativistic personalities
- More common in women than in men
- Repress their Extroverted Thinking function, meaning they sometimes preserve their own opinion
in the face of facts and evidence to the contrary
- The difference between INFP and INFJ
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INFP Functions
1. Dominant: |
Introverted Feeling |
2. Auxiliary: |
Extroverted Intuition |
3. Tertiary: |
Introverted Sensing |
4. Inferior: |
Extroverted Thinking |
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More About INFPs
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Demographics
While demographical data on Jungian type is unreliable, the following figures are commonly accepted as
guidelines:
Total: 4%
Male: 2%
Female: 6% |
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INFJ
Carl Gustav Jung
Psychiatrist
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
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INFJ
Plato
Philosopher
"As a young man I reflected a lot about how society could be improved ...
but I refrained from action."
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INFJ
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our
language is the use of the word 'I.'"
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INFJ
Niels Bohr
Physicist
"We must [turn to those] problems with which already thinkers like Buddha and Lao Tzu have been
confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence."
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INFJ
Thomas Jefferson
U.S. President
"In stating rules for our government, I must not omit the important one
of never entering into argument with another. I never saw an instance of disputants convincing each other by argument."
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INFJ
Mahatma Gandhi
Campaigner for the independence of India
"I am indeed a practical dreamer. ... I want to convert my
dreams into realities as far as possible."
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INFJ
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of
love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
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INFJ
Noam Chomsky
Linguist
"We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at
Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic."
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About INFJs
- Holistic visionaries, oriented towards contemplation
- Amongst the types with the highest average IQ
- Strongly linked to the Dependent personality
- Somewhat linked to the Depressive and Narcissistic personalities
- More common in women than in men
- Repress their Extroverted Sensing function, meaning they may forgo living life to its fullest
- The difference between INFP and INFJ
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INFJ Functions
1. Dominant: |
Introverted Intuition |
2. Auxiliary: |
Extroverted Feeling |
3. Tertiary: |
Introverted Thinking |
4. Inferior: |
Extroverted Sensing |
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More About INFJs
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Demographics
While demographical data on Jungian type is unreliable, the following figures are commonly accepted as
guidelines:
Total: 1%
Male: 0.5%
Female: 1.5%
The rarest type amongst men
The rarest type overall |
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