Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources… — John Farrar Copy Share Image
I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though… — Tom Jaine Copy Share Image
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I can't deny that I was an intellectual prostitute along the way many, many times in college. I can remember one examination… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I absolutely think that women told that writing about themselves is somehow not worthy enough for a public audience all the time.… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced,… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I am a conservative. I have said I don't know how many times, conservatism is an intellectual pursuit. And by that I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
