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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
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"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."
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"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
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"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."
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
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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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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
Thought
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
Sacrifice
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
Time
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
Man
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
Art
"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."
Character
"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
Knowledge
"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
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