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"Marxism is the opium of the 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."
"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."
"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
"Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that."
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"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society."
"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."
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