Intellectual Quotes
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No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.
D. Elton Trueblood
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
Pat Buchanan
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Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
William Hazlitt
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
J. M. Coetzee
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I'm a fake intellectual.
Adam Brody
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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.
Evelyn Underhill
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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
John Anthony Frusciante
Ataxia
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Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.
Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
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Ten years from now, I'll probably be an accountant or something, maybe a rocket scientist. That's what I'm aiming for. I've got a few degrees, I'm actually going to Yale, yeah. I'm pretty intellectual, yeah, you know, whatever you call it.
Ben Gillies
Silverchair
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
Dan Brown
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
Pankaj Mishra
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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
