“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.” DifficultEffortPathIntellectualSpotsCommonplaceSecluded Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.” MindMayTruthPathBedIntellectualSickSticksPracticalsPuzzlesDisbeliefUsefulness Book:Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life Source: Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life
“The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.” NaturalPowerfulRacePathInfluenceDevelopmentMassIntellectualPhysicsMathematicalErasContributionMost PowerfulChemistrySpheresCelestialNatural ScienceNew EraIntellectual Development Author:Alexander von Humboldt
“Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” IfsWantUseGoalActingBehindsTechnologyPathClearCreationIntellectualLaysPropertyContraryVehicleElectricCompellingMotorTransportPatentsAdventInitiateAccelerateIntellectual PropertyLawsuitGood FaithTeslaLandminesElectric Vehicles Author:Elon Musk
“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.” PeopleMenReasonGovernmentCultureFoundFatherCommonMoralPrinciplesPathProgressConditionsMankindStageSecurityObjectsDivineHigherMoralityCivilizationAuthorityIntellectualCapacityIndependenceSuperiorsRedemptionVainTitlesExpansionCouncilOur FatherBenevolentIndependence DayElevationAscentOrdinancesTracingAscendingDivine Wisdom Author:William M. Evarts
“I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.” ChurchPathIntellectualCatholicConventionalCatholic Church Author:Ross Douthat