Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Intellectual Quotes

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 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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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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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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May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

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Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

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

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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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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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[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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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.

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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

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He was not so much brain as earwax

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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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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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