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Wyndham Lewis : A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Alexander Herzen : " This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Noam Chomsky : " We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Oscar Wilde : " I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Reinhold Niebuhr : " Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Charlotte Bronte : " Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Karl Popper : " When I speak of reason or rationalism, all I mean is the conviction that we can learn through criticism of our mistakes and errors, especially through criticism by others, and eventually also through self-criticism. A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others — not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others. The emphasis here is on the idea of criticism or, to be more precise, critical discussion. The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that mere criticism as such helps us achieve new ideas. But he does think that, in the sphere of ideas, only critical discussion can help us sort the wheat from the chaff. He is well aware that acceptance or rejection of an idea is never a purely rational matter; but he thinks that only critical discussion can give us the maturity to see an idea from more and more sides and to make a correct judgement of it. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Sir Edmund Gosse : " War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Max Born : " Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Marcel Proust : " Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Ralph J Cudworth : " If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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Wyndham Lewis: " The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact." # Advertising # Arts and Artists # America

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Wyndham Lewis: " The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened." # Equality # Politicians and Politics # Power

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Wyndham Lewis: " With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state." # Family # Feminism # Advertising

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Wyndham Lewis: " As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet." # Feminism # Women # Revolutions and Revolutionaries

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Wyndham Lewis: " Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination." # Feminism # Gentlemen # Men and Women

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Wyndham Lewis: " I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum." # America # Freedom # Power

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Wyndham Lewis: " No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion." # America # Freedom # Power

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Wyndham Lewis: " The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government." # Ideas # Politicians and Politics # Government

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Wyndham Lewis: " Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men." # Indolence # Friends and Friendship # Ecstasy

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Wyndham Lewis: " A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere." # Intelligence and Intellectuals # War # Revenge

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