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“In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.”

Lying Existence Fields Ought Lessons Intellectual Mathematics Significant Mathematician Analogies

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.”

Lying Hate Emotional Painting Intellectual Obsession Compulsion Involvement Deep Love Love Or Hate

Author:Edward Betts

“The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”

Needs May Ideas Spirit Lying Greater Balance Truth Is Intellectual Opposites Constant Vary Thrust Repose Distortion

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.”

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.”

Wells Lying Social Class Modern Intellectual Glory Concern West Scales Well Being Consistent Privileged Historic Modern Times

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.”

Ifs Lying Certain Intellectual Possession Uncertainty Quests Intellectual Life

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.”

Ideas Ends Lying Process Goal Skills Intellectual Concerned Overcoming Piety Efficacy Zealot Beginnings And Ends

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.”

Lying Artist Power Emotional Painting Intellectual Conscious Response Association Subconscious Emotional Response

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics - the model of all neo-positivistic thinking - lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.”

“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.”

Real Facts Lying Poverty Emotional Intellectual Weakness Ideals England Court Coast Creeps Incomplete Lanes Drunkenness Armament

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)