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

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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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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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

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

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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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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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

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Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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

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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.

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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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