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"Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect."
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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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"I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table."
Power
"Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature."
Nature
"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."
Time
"Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave."
Time
"Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect."
Intellectual
"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't."
Security
"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."
Time
"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world."
World
"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."
World
"If geography is prose, maps are iconography."
Knowledge
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