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Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.
It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.
At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.
I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.
Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.
Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.