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“Accordingly genius is an intellect which has become untrue to its destination.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
“the fact that the intellect is not the most subtle, powerful and appropriate instrument for grasping the truth is only one more reason in favour of starting with the intellect rather than with the intuitions of the unconscious or with...” Marcel Proust, The Fugitive
“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehended; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the...” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“On the level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the imbecile flatness of the present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital
“One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a...” Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

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