Quotes About Intellect

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Thinking new things is the best way to exercise the mind.

A questioning man is already half wise.

A thinking man can never be brave.