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

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

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

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

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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

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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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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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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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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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I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

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Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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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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The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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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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My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

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