For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience… — William James Copy Share Image
Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work.… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard 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
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
“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
If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem… — Elizabeth Goudge 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
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
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
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both… — George Steinbrenner Copy Share Image
Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right… — Eleanor Duckworth Copy Share Image
The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth,… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are real and actuals who speak first to bare open and bring fore the burning matters factual before others can speak… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his… — Richard Tillinghast Copy Share Image
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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