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Intellectual Quotes by Philip Pullman
- The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual…
- I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-…
- Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so…
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- The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. — Benjamin Banneker
- Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
- Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — Georges Bataille
- It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais