"The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!"
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"One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films."
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"It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity."
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"It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day."
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"I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that."
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"Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic."
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"The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course."
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"We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says."
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"Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve."
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"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know."
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"A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price."
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"Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question."
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"Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit."
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"What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings."
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"The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his."
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"Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance."
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"The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science."
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"When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time."
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"A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age."
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"What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience"
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