#intellect

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By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.


Steven Pinker


#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.


Steven Pinker


#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.


Harold Pinter


#arts #british #especially #force #gets

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.


Robert M. Pirsig


#direct experience #experience #independent #intellectual #prior

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.


Ruth Pitter


#because #emotion #emotionally #every #fall

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.


Sidney Poitier


#burden #fans #had #i #intellectual

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.


Horace Porter


#educated #his #intellect #person

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.


Michael Polanyi


#based #cannot #communication #conscious #contrary

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.


William Winwood Reade


#could #declare #discover #find #form

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.


Jeremy Rifkin


#food #intellectual #intellectual property #into #lock