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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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

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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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I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

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

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

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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

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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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I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

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