Intellectual Quotes
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But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.
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As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.
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All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
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If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
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The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed yet dispassionate, ready to stand alone, curious, eager, skeptical. The banner of critical independence, ragged and torn though it may be, is still the best we have.
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This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.
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There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.
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Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
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George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.
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Sarcasm is a weapon of the intellectual.
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Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
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The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.
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I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and just intellectualizing it on any level. I just want to speak from the subconscious, which knows way more about me than my intellectual side will ever know. Once I start doing the arrangements - what I call the architecture of the song - that has a lot of thought put into it.
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To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.
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The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
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Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.
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He was not so much brain as earwax
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Men like Henry George are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.
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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
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Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
