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

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We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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An intellectual hate is the worst.

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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

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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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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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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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The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

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