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"She was short on intellect, but long on shape."
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Personal Development
"The buddhi [intellect] is today's gain, it is today's experience! Whereas, akkal [insight, wisdom] is a nature's gift!"
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Personal Development
"I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her conversation; it was merry, rather small; by turns I saw vivacity, vanity, coquetry, look out through its irid, but I watched in vain for a glimpse of soul. I am no Oriental; white necks, carmine lips and cheeks, clusters of bright curls, do not suffice for me without that Promethean spark which will live after the roses and lilies are faded, the burnished hair grown grey. In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life--November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth and home would be cold indeed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect."
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Personal Development
"Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is understood through the intellect (buddhi). Knowledge of that which is beyond the world (alaukik gnan) cannot be understood through the intellect. That is understood through 'Gnan' [Knowledge of the Real Self]."
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"Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself."
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Personal Development
"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
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Personal Development
"One with higher 'revolutions' of intellect has a higher power of understanding. He will understand before explanation becomes necessary. Laborers do not have even five 'revolutions' per minute and an intellectual has one to two thousand 'revolutions' per minute. The higher the 'revolutions, the quicker he will understand this 'Science' [Akram Vignan]."
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Personal Development
"A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time."
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Personal Development
"These little grey cells. It is up to them."
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Personal Development
"Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect-better because they alone give promise of final success."
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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."
Authority
"There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature."
Knowledge
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
Philosophy
"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
Fiction
"The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."
Philosophy
"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."
Irony
"And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."
Philosophy
"In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant."
Behavior
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Philosophy
"This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night."
Society
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