#intellectual

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. ↗

— David Attenborough

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It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#between #big #distinction #english #french

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. ↗

— John Dewey

#beliefs #compelled #compromises #even #hangs

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#comfortable #desirable #emotionally #go #i

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#evaluate #everybody #fact #intellectual #italy

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Louise Bogan

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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#elaborate #elite #fall #intellectual #obviously

No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally. ↗

— Michael Servetus

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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#intellectual #reluctant #life

فكرة الحداثة والعلمانية والتنوير فكرة متأخرة عن الثورة العلمية بقرنيين على الأقل وهي نتيجة الثورة العلمية ومعلولهاوليست شرطها وعلتها ↗

— أبو يعرب المرزوقي

#hermeneutics #intellectual #literature #mind #philosophy