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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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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
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"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
Man
"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
Trust
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
Illusion
"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
Man
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
Dream
"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
Mistake
"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
Age
"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
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