#intellectual

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature. ↗

— Adolph Green

#big #certain #class #folk #had

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement. ↗

— John Green

#arc #concert #emotions #engagement #feel

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#best #energy #get #ink #intellectual

My words and my ideas are my property, and I’ll keep and protect them as surely as I do my stable of unicorns. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#intellectual-property #unicorns #funny

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#beautiful #beautiful thing #breaking #fantastic #going

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

#amount #attempt #consequent #figures #greed

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#brute #called #commonly #domain #facts

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. ↗

— John Adams

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