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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."

"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."

"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."

"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."

"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."

"Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions."

"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."

"You have to be smart to get what you want."

"God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible."
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

"Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace, which leads to the impairment of natural functions and, in the long run, of the slower processes called structure. For each individual human being, the main practical problems are these: How can I prevent my ego from eclipsing the inner light, synteresis, scintilla animae, and so perpetuating the state of unregenerate illusion and blindness? And these practical problems remain unchallenged, even if we abandon the notion of an entelechy or physiological intelligencer, of an atman or pneuma and think, instead, in terms [of] systems..."

"And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together."

"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
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