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“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”

Found Difficult Intellectual Intellect

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.”

Difficult Effort Path Intellectual Spots Commonplace Secluded

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?”

“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”

Source: Science and Culture: And Other Essays

“We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted reaction against the subject is not an unfortunate rebellion against a difficult subject, but a perfectly proper response to a preoccupation with triviality.”

Believe Has Beens School Difficult Subjects Taught Intellectual Response Reactions Grades Rebellion Unfortunate Preoccupation Arithmetic Triviality Formal Education Grades In School Difficult Subjects

Author:Lynn Steen

“It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.”

Source: The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror