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Intellectual Quotes - Page 43

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.18, Penguin

The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.

Arnold Bennett (1975). “Literary Taste: how to Form it: With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature”, Ayer Company Pub

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.28, Harvard University Press

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

William James (1911). “Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy”, p.51, U of Nebraska Press