Quotes About Intellect

How dreadful! cried Lord Harry. I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

La belleza, la auténtica belleza, termina allí donde empieza la expresión intelectual. El intelecto es en sí mismo un modo de exageración y destruye la armonía de cualquier rostro. En cuanto uno se sienta a pensar, se vuelve todo nariz, o todo frente, o algo quizá más espantoso.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. (...) Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failure.

Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.

Intellect is in itself an exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

I can quite understand a man accepting laws that protect private property, and admit of its accumulation, as long as he himself is able under those conditions to realise some form of beautiful and intellectual life. But it is almost incredible to me how a man whose life is marred and made hideous by such laws can possibly acquiesce in their continuance.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. what they call thier loyalty, and thier fidelity, i call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect- simply a confession of failure.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

The great events of the world take place in the Brain. It is in the Brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Sim, é uma horrenda injustiça. Eu faço uma grande distinção entre as pessoas. Escolho os amigos pela aparência, os conhecidos pelo carácter e os inimigos pelo intelecto. Nunca é demais o cuidado que se põe na escolha dos inimigos. Não quero um que seja parvo. Todos eles têm uma certa intelectualidade, e, por conseguinte, todos eles me apreciam. É ser muito vaidoso? Parece-me que é sê-lo um bocadinho.

real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.

a beleza, a verdadeira beleza, acaba onde a expressão intelectual começa. O intelecto é já uma forma de exagero e destrói a harmonia de qualquer rosto.

As pessoas comuns costumavam esperar para que a vida lhes exibisse os próprios segredos; para a minoria, porém, para os eleitos, os mistérios da vida eram revelados antes mesmo que o véu fosse afastado, efeito, muitas vezes, da arte, especialmente da literatura, que lida, direto, com as paixões e o intelecto.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look

warto?? idei w ?aden sposób nie zale?y od szczeroÅ›ci tego, kto jÄ… gÅ'osi. Wprost przeciwnie; istnieje du?e prawdopodobieÅ"stwo, ?e im bardziej jest nieszczery, tym bardziej stanowi ona czysty wytwór jego intelektu, nieska?ony jego osobistymi potrzebami, pragnieniami czy przesÄ…dami.

The only thing I have to declare is my genius.

Znios? brutaln? si??, ale brutalny rozs?dek jest absolutnie nie do zniesienia. Pos?ugiwanie si? nim jest nie fair. To cios poni?ej intelektu

a new Hedonism that was to recreate life and to save it from that harsh uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival. It was to have its service of the intellect, certainly, yet it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience.

Ludzie, którzy kochajÄ… tylko jeden raz w ?yciu sÄ… pÅ'ytcy. To, co nazywajÄ… lojalnoÅ›ciÄ… i wiernoÅ›ciÄ…, ja nazywam bezwÅ'adem przyzwyczajeniem albo brakiem wyobra?ni. Wierno?? jest w ?yciu emocjonalnym tym samym, czym spójno?? w ?yciu intelektu - przyznaniem siÄ™ do pora?ki.

W duszy jest zwierzÄ™co??, a ciaÅ'o miewa chwile uduchowienia. ZmysÅ'y mogÄ… uszlachetni?,a intelekt sta? siÄ™ ?ródÅ'em zepsucia. Któ? mo?e stwierdzi?, gdzie siÄ™ koÅ"czy bodziec fizyczny, a zaczyna psychiczny impuls.