#tell

I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b. ↗

— Ariana Reines

#baudelaire #philip-guston #sentimentality #intelligence

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be? ↗

— Frans de Waal

#humanity #intelligence #primates #intelligence

I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke, or because, by and large, we don't have the brainpower to grapple with it. Instead, the enormous zest for science that I see in first-graders and the lesson from the remnant hunter-gatherers both speak eloquently: A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchising them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#human #intelligence #science #intelligence

Sexual energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy between the two is right). ↗

— Alexandra Katehakis

#love #power #sex #virtue #intelligence

Take a trip to the exotic landscape of your lover’s body. ↗

— Alexandra Katehakis

#landscape #love #lover #sex #trip

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#intelligence

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#intelligence

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not. ↗

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

#humanity #intelligence #intelligence

Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#intelligence

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. ↗

— Voltaire

#nature #intelligence