Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Intellectual Quotes

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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To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

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It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.

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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.

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These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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