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Letter "I" » intellect
«The weaker the intellect, the stronger the belief»
«We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.»
«The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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«The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing»
«We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.»
«We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.»
«The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing /to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.»
«To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.»
«The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.»
«Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.»