#elle

I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ↗

— Zara Phillips

#find #i #labelled #princess #quite

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#entertainment #excellent #film #noble #plain

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#explanation #genetics #intellectuals #invokes #mind

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

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

#arts #british #especially #force #gets

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#direct experience #experience #independent #intellectual #prior

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#because #emotion #emotionally #every #fall

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ↗

— Plato

#compelled #evil #evils #good #greater

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. ↗

— Plutarch

#carefully #endeavor #excel #excellent #faulty