Quotes About Intellect

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

dynamic view of intellect—indeed, of self.

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

In fact, educated people can justify sins more easily than uneducated people can, because they are clever enough to rationalize their sins away.

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Our century has been dominated intellectually by a coming to terms with science.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Groucho Marx said, "I find television very educational. Every time someone turns on a set I go into the other room and read a book.

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily . . . in the street brawls.

We did not fall because of a moral error; we fell because of an intellectual error: that of taking the phenomenal world as real. Therefore we are morally innocent. It is the Empire in its various disguised polyforms that tells us we have sinned.

And talking about books as though something were at stake in a book. Not opening up a book to worship it or be elevated by it or to lose yourself to the world around you. No, boxing with the book.

Tanta istruzione, e non serve a nulla. Nulla può isolare dal più infimo livello del pensiero.

Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.

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Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way we make heads or tails of it is through intuition. Intuition is seeing the solution—seeing it, knowing it. It's emotion and intellect going together. That's essential for the filmmaker.

FAUSTUS. To have fooled the philosopher. MAGUS. One finds, in my profession, sir, the greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection. FAUSTUS. One finds the same in mine.

You wouldn't use a hammer to open a can of soup. You can't use the intellect to apprehend spiritual reality.

Disagreeing has become an easy way to feel better about yourself for being smarter than everybody else. I call it the assholier-than-thou syndrome.