"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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"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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"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."

Brad Holland, American Artist

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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."

George Eliot, British Author

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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

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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."

Paul Valery, French Poet

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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."

Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher

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"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."

Ernest Newman, English Critic

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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."

Harry Oppenheimer, South African Businessman

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"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."

George Gissing, British Novelist

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"No one knows a man better than himself."

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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."

"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."

"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."

"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."

"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."

"Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that."

"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."

"No one knows a man better than himself."

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"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."

"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."