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Intellectuals Quotes (page 11)

The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. When they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into something more than a purpose-driven tool for the industrial state. Seth Godin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist."
He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist. Ursula K. Le Guin
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other... Mark Twain
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual lifethe life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose withincan understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. George Eliot
I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age... The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder... I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that... Oscar Wilde
A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying and liberating to consider this aspect of being a novelist. Dean Koontz
What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge. Swami Vivekananda
Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.1. Get enough food to eat, and eat it.2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there.3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noiseuntil you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it.4. Richard Brautigan
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery. C. S. Lewis
Paul Schrader quote: "I'm basically depressive, cynical, prone to intellectualization."
I'm basically depressive, cynical, prone to intellectualization. Paul Schrader
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. Thomas Huxley
He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge would be hard to convey to anyone. Intellectually, he is juggling half a dozen lit torches, Ming vases, live puppies, and running chainsaws. In this frame of mind he cannot bring himself to give a shit about the fact that this incredibly powerful billionaire has gone to a lot of trouble to come and... Neal Stephenson
I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but... Edward Abbey
Oscar Wilde quote: "But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression..."
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Oscar Wilde

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