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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. -- Thomas Mann
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. -- Pat Conroy
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. -- Etty Hillesum
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. -- Steven Pinker
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life. -- Emile Durkheim
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. -- Harold Pinter
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there. -- Niall Ferguson
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid. -- Meghan Daum
The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman. -- Ellen Key
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke. -- George Edward Woodberry
Education leads to intellectual life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Our family life was certainly not intellectual. -- Douglass North
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. -- Bill Gates
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. -- G. M. Trevelyan
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life -- Ludwig Feuerbach
Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no. -- Camille Paglia
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. -- William Lyon Phelps
The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. -- Mason Cooley
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth. -- Susan Jacoby
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy. -- Humphry Davy
Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well. -- Rebecca Goldstein
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. -- Karl Marx
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. -- Dennis Prager
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. -- Jane Addams
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. -- Terence McKenna
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. -- George Edward Woodberry
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. -- Frederic Bastiat
Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved. -- George Arthur Buttrick
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind. -- Brian Dennehy
Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. -- Iris Murdoch
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while. -- Albert Einstein
The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body. -- Alexis Carrel
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. -- Jeffrey Tucker
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life. -- Eric Kandel
One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life. -- Eric Kandel
Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing. -- Ernest L. Boyer
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them -- Lev S. Vygotsky
I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life. -- Scott Stossel
Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. -- Aristippus
I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses "? I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it. -- Marsden Hartley
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes. -- William James
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. -- Michael Crichton
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. -- Samuel Johnson
All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny. -- William James
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life. -- Ezra Taft Benson
You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. -- Ayn Rand
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today's life. -- Matthew Weiner
I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we? -- Terry Tempest Williams
I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution. -- Jon Appleton
The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world. -- Siri Hustvedt
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife. -- W. H. Auden
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity. -- William James
In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research. -- Richard J. Foster
Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing. -- Angus MacLean
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.... -- Thomas Aquinas
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. -- Ruben Blades
The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants' quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor. -- Albert Einstein
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself! -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality. -- D. Elton Trueblood
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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