Intellectual Quotes - Page 31

However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property .

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.