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I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

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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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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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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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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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I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

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

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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

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He was not so much brain as earwax

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Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

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Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

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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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