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Intellectual Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual…
- The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of…
- Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
- Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
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- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker
- Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac
- 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
- My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7. — David Beckham
- The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. — Henry Ward Beecher
- In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights,… — James Belushi
- It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. — Roberto Benigni