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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."
"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."
"No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself."
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"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
"So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled."
"It is under all circumstances an advantage to be in full possession of one's personality, otherwise the repressed elements will only crop up as a hindrance elsewhere, not just at some unimportant point, but at the very spot where we are most sensitive. If people can be educated to see the shadow-side of their nature clearly, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more self-knowledge can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."
"But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."
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