Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Men Quotes, Intellectual Quotes

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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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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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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

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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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Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

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

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

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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

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

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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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An intellectual hate is the worst.

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He was not so much brain as earwax

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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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What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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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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