#intellect

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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.


Augustus Hare


#glass #heaven #intellect #light #like

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.


Joseph Stiglitz


#broad #development #economist #intellectual #intellectual development

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.


Stephen Carter


#black #box #choosing #intellectual #label

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.


Oscar Wilde


#imagination #intellect #loyalty #shallow #faith

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.


Oscar Wilde


#expect #expect the unexpected #intellect #modern #shows

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.


Noam Chomsky


#conservatism #economics #intellectuals #keynesianism #law

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).


Carter Lindberg


#history-of-thought #intellectual-history #age

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.


Criss Jami


#absurdity #art #artist #ecstasy #experiment

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.


Charles Darwin


#character-building #emotions #intellect #music #poetry

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.


Uwe Boll


#bundy #him #homer #i #intellect