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Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

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Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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