Quotes with intellect

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• What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources - to do something about them.

  Henry Ford
  American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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• Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

  William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• Will and intellect are one and the same.

  Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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• Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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• All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

  Walter Benjamin
  German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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• The logic of the heart is usually better than the logic of the head, and the consistency of sympathy is superior as rule for life to the consistency of the intellect.

  Youth and life (1913)

  Randolph Silliman Bourne
  American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• professorial
• regenerative
• consistency
• principles
• inadequate
• definable

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