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There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.
Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.
This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.
The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.
To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.
So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.
Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.
To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.
I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.
...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.
I look forward to taking on issues regarding the Constitution, intellectual property, terrorism, and other legal and regulatory reforms.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.
Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.