#intellectual

There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

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Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

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By natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry

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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our

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Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and

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Genius is the ability to act wisely without precedent — the power to do the right thing the first time. A capacity for

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Freedom means rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfillment of my being.

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Insanity — a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

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Imagination in any form destroys truth.

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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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To learn to see—to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and

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For everything that exists I feel a visual affection, an intellectual fondness –

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The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate

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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

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If I hear myself speaking out loud, the ears with which I hear myself speaking out loud do not listen to me in the same way

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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick, and reality into

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The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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I’ve always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself.

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The experimental method is the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions.

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The instinctive persistence of life over and above any intelligence is something that provides matter for some of my

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My whole trouble is that when I was pregnant with ideas I took fright at the ideal. That’s why I give birth to deformities

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The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest incident becomes imbued with great significance.

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