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"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."
"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."
"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."
"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
"That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal."
"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."
"Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any."
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