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“A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.”

“The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.”

Failing Conscience Intellect

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?”

Knows Mean Seems Able Born Poor Knowing Conscience Intellect

Book:Pollok's Course of Time

Source: Pollok's Course of Time

“The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.”

Men Heart States Force Sin Example Habit Conscience Add Intellect Wicked Sinner Repentance Association Bad Habits Affinity Good Examples Transgression Incline

Author:Edward Thomson

“Conviction is the conscience of intellect.”

Belief Conscience Conviction Intellect

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.”

Creation Duty Taste Conscience Concern Relation Intellect Sole Arbiter Collateral

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.”

Men Wells Art Hard Body Passion Enjoy Love Is Clear Hard Work Morality Conscience Intellect Good Man Controlled Despise Inferiors Passion For Life

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.”

Ifs Matter Political Belief Social Growth Differences Religious Rooms Opinion Healthy Diversity Conscience Intellect Wide Tolerance Differences Of Opinion

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.”

People Knows Persons Jesus Differences Intellectual Conscience Argument Intellect Stuck Spokes

Author:Kirk Cameron

“It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.”

Men World Whole Seems Land Conscience Spread Intellect Whole World Chosen Steady Decay Pashtuns

Author:Yasmina Khadra

“When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.”

Thinking Heart Wonder Lord Mystery Shapes Conscience Mere Intellect Unfolding

Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III