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

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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

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

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

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

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Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

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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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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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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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[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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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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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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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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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

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Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

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