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"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
"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."
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
"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."
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one."
"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."
"Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time."
"For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously."
"Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman."
"It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched."
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