#intellect

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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.


Chauncey Wright


#desires #emotions #fears #form #human

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.


Anthony Burgess


#either #intellectual #intelligent #may #novelist

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don’t insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don’t let me hear a word about the rest


Alfred de Vigny


#politics #nature

All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she as extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity.


Lewis Hyde


#intellectual-property #art

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.


Aldous Huxley


#huxley #ignorance #intellect #business

I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.


Joseph L. Mankiewicz


#cold #comic #earth #even #even worse

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.


Angelina Grimke


#annihilate #been #capacity #colored #common

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.


Virginia Woolf


#intellectual-freedom #women #writing #dreams

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.


Francis Wright


#appear #attentive #best #consideration #cooperation

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration... If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.


Victor Hugo


#enlightenment #intellect #education