Intellectual Quotes — Page 40

Writer, Philosopher

“How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!”

Important Nature Intellectual

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.”

Thinking Men Intellectual

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Kenny Smith

Basketball Player

“In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their intellectual sloth for their "principles," to their rhetorical cleverness for their "conscience," and to their regimented conformism for their "philosophy."”

Philosophy Intellectual Sloth

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Henry Louis Gates

Scholar, Historian

“It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.”

Black Lonely Intellectual

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Lewis Browne

Author, Rabbi

“Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual Unitarism. Only slowly, and with many pangs is even Protestantism shaking off the religion about Christ.”

Religious Organization Intellectual

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James Russell Lowell

Poet, Essayist

“Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.”

Memories Intellectual Gymnastics

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.”

Mean Greatness Intellectual

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.”

Men Atheism Intellectual

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”

Passion Intellectual Hope

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!”

People Intellectual Hatred

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.”

Race Communication Intellectual

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.”

Intellectual Cynicism Sloth

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