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

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

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When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

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Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

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

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And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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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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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

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

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

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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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