#intel

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. ↗

— Henry Miller

#debate-fodder #intelligence #reading #wisdom #intelligence

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. ↗

— Martin Luther

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The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#intellect #science #faith

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ↗

— Edward Levi

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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. ↗

— Marya Mannes

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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ↗

— George Orwell

#imagination

Además no es tan malo vivir solo. Yo la paso bien, decidiendo a cada instante lo que quiero hacer, y gracias a la soledad me conozco; algo fundamental para vivir ↗

— Facundo Cabral

#imagination #intellectual #life-lessons #imagination

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#humans #ingenuity #intelligence #mortality #smarts

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it. ↗

— William James

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We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. ↗

— Allen Lane

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