"I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me."
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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."
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"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."
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"As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food."
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"Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools."
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"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."
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"There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees."
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"Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline."
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"The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background."
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"The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums."
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"Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology."
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"The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action."
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"To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."
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"Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert."
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"Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward."
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"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."
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"Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?"
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"Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers."
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"The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it."
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"Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world."
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