#intellectual

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. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican. ↗

— Sting

#intellectually #probably #republican

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#certain #concepts #demonstration #earlier #exciting

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. ↗

— Roland Allen

#apostles #apprehension #cried #illumination #intellectual

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison? ↗

— Erin Gray

#body #center #centers #each #emotional

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#i #intellectually #oriented #very

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#intellectualism #reactions #seeing #understanding #judgment

Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis--race, class, or ideology? Such hatred is in fact corroding many hearts today. Atheist teachers in the West are bringing up a younger generation in a spirit of hatred of their own society. Amid all the vituperation we forget that the defects of capitalism represent the basic flaws of human nature, allowed unlimited freedom together with the various human rights; we forget that under Communism (and Communism is breathing down the neck of all moderate forms of socialism, which are unstable) the identical flaws run riot in any person with the least degree of authority; while everyone else under that system does indeed attain 'equality'--the equality of destitute slaves. This eager fanning of the flames of hatred is becoming the mark of today's free world. Indeed, the broader the personal freedoms are, the higher the level of prosperity or even of abundance--the more vehement, paradoxically, does this blind hatred become. The contemporary developed West thus demonstrates by its own example that human salvation can be found neither in the profusion of material goods nor in merely making money. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communism #socialism #western-intellectuals #equality

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love; fools just love. Fools breathe air; intellectuals (so called) breathe ego. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#fools #humor #intellectuals-inspiration #love #motivation

Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#leon-trotsky #marxism #trotskyism #love