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Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

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The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

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An intellectual hate is the worst.

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

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When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

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I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

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It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

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In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

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And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

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[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.

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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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