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Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself ↗

— Philip Roth

#intelligence #know-thyself #loyalty #social-intelligence #intelligence

He knew what retributions your devils are liable to bring for the way you treat your wife and women or behave while your father is on his deathbed, what you ought to think of your pleasure, of acting like a cockroach; he had the intelligence for the comparison. He had the intelligence to be sublime. But sublimity can't exist only as a special gift of the few, due to an accident of origin, like being born an albino. If it were, what interest would we have in it? ↗

— Saul Bellow

#intelligence

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences and at the same time emphasizing the similarities of all the intelligent races in the galaxy - tying them together, building common traditions... The notion strikes me as kind of fine. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#democracy #difference #globalization #ideas #inspirational

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself. ↗

— Erol Ozan

#brain #computer #computers #computing #consciousness

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love #jealousy

He was succeeded by his son Ramesses, a brash young man of about twenty, not overburdened with intelligence and singularly lacking in taste. ↗

— William Christopher Hayes

#intelligence

It's funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive & intelligent & always one down & all the rest of it: then at thirty one finds one is a great clumping brute, incapable of appreciating anything finer than a kiss or a kick, roaring our one's hypocrisies at the top of one's voice, thick skinned as a rhino. At least I do. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#intelligence

Sight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him--and intelligent Russian--the inexplicable importance attached to it by the English. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#intelligence

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean. ↗

— Carol Alt

#body #cart #clean #eating #electric

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers. ↗

— Carol Alt

#call #crackers #eat #get #hungry