Intellectual Life Quotes - Page 3

• And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Symphony, Intellectual, Musical

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

  Mason Cooley

  Intellectual, Shock, Businessman

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• The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

  George Santayana

  Art, Queens, Passion

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  Pat Conroy

  Intellectual, South Carolina, Roles

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• All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

  Aldo Leopold

  Team, Men, Land

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic", p. 203-204, 1949.

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• All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

  Karl Marx

  Intellectual, Invention, Force

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