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Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.