"Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get."
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"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."
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"The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension."
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"He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper."
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"Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied."
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"It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes."
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"Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt."
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"Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul."
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"Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual."
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"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."
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"Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on."
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"We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it."
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"Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought."
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"Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization."
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"The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science - or any honest intellectual inquiry."
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"I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding."
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"The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder."
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"Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen."
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"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible."
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"Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit."
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