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"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
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"You are surrounded by ignorance, savagery and fanaticism. You live in a society where everyone thinks he/she knows about everything in the whole universe. If you find yourself among those intellectual idiots, then being good and humble may give rise to doubts in your mind about your own ideas. So, you must first learn to distinguish between real and shallow intellect. Then, as a self- preservation tactic, you need to let your pretence of arrogance grow as big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you."

"Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are."

"The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts."

"These little grey cells. It is up to them."

"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."

"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."

"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."

"Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly."
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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."

"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."
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