Oscar Wilde Quotes, Men Quotes, Intellectual Quotes

Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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

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All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

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

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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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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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

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Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

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

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

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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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

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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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