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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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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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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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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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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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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

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

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

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

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It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

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

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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

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