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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."
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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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"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
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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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"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."
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"Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - and therefore, to a number of enthusiasts determined to go the further, anti-theism. Hereby let us observe that science has long served best and should be, if none other, the one discipline, if at all possible, free of potential ideology, pro-religious or anti-religious, and/or biased presupposition in order to maintain the true authenticity and the full reliability of its nature."
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"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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"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
Intellectual
"No two persons ever read the same book."
Reading
"Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine."
Genius
"If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart."
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"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."
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"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
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"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society."
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"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."
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