Intellegence Quotes

• When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Religion
  • Protection
  • Adaptation

• Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Service
  • Neurosis
  • Intellegence

• The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Method
  • Intellegence
  • Estimating

• Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Party
  • Step
  • Intellegence