The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Many intellectual heroes in the European tradition seem to find the great outdoors a chilling prospect - and its literary analogue, the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones,… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
There were 100 intellectual reasons not to pursue 'Wicked.' There were times where it was very challenging, where the mind said, 'This… — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
Some people are skeptical about the value of indictments where a foreign nation-state actor is involved. But in the case of APT10,… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
If a quotationist who plagiarizes the words and minds of others to make quotes is a 'Narrow intellectual'. Then a quotationist who… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“If you take an objection in the ‘relative’, it is intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ don’t have intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ are abuddha (do not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of working outside, using my body and my mind together. I haven't been disappointed! Land surveying can be… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image