Angst Quote by Christopher Hitchens

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Initially, you grasp [knowledge] through the ‘light’ of the intellect and then the understanding arises, and thereafter a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence…

— Dada Bhagwan

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

— Dean Koontz

“An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of…

— Bhagavad Gita

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

— Walter Lippmann

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

— Rollo May

“The intellect can only think about or analyze joy, but cannot feel it.”

— Bryant McGill

The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion…

— Howard Mumford Jones

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

— Zicheng Hong

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

— Richard Hofstadter