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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."
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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."
"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."
"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."
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"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."
"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."
"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
"To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts."
"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."
"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false."
"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
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