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Wystan Hugh Auden : The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident. # Experience

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Source Unknown : " The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. " # Experience

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Wilhelm Reich : " Rulers and generals muster their troops. Magnates muster the sums of money which give them power. The fascist dictators muster the irrational human reactions which make it possible for them to attain and maintain their power over the masses. The scientists muster knowledge and means of research. But, thus far, no organization fighting for freedom has ever mustered the biological arsenal where the weapons are to be found for the establishment and the maintenance of human freedom. All precision of our social existence notwithstanding, there is as yet no definition of the word freedom which would be in keeping with natural science. No word is more misused and misunderstood. To define freedom is the same as to define sexual health. But nobody will openly admit this. The advocacy of personal and social freedom is connected with anxiety and guilt feelings. As if to be free were a sin or at least not quite as it should be. Sex-economy makes this guilt feeling comprehensible: freedom without sexual self-determination is in itself a contradiction. But to be sexual means — according to the prevailing human structure — to be sinful or guilty. There are very few people who experience sexual love without guilt feeling. "Free love" has acquired a degrading meaning: it lost the meaning given it by the old fighters for freedom. In films and in books, to be genital and to be criminal are presented as the same thing. " # Experience

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Clifford D Simak : " Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. " # Experience

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Bertrand Russell : " The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. " # Experience

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Karl Mannheim : " What is intelligible in history can be formulated only with reference to problems and conceptual constructions which themselves arise in the flux of historical experience. " # Experience

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Robert Smith : " ... if you could accept that certain people were more intelligent than others, then you have to accept that some people can feel more than others. (1985) " # Experience

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Gillian Anderson : " I didn't really think too much about the fact that it was about aliens. I was intrigued by that aspect of it, but I was more intrigued by the relationship between Mulder and Scully, and how intelligent this woman was, and that she would stand up in the face of his intelligence and feel comfortable with him. " # Experience

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Sir Peter Medawar : " I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again. " # Experience

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Sarah Grimké : " If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic circle would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer. " # Experience

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Ken Wilber : " Within the scientific skeleton of truth, religious meaning attempts to flourish, often by denying the scientific framework itself — rather like sawing off the branch where you cheerily perch. The disgust is mutual because modern science gleefully denies virtually all the basic tenets of religion in general. According to the typical view of modern science, religion is not much more than a holdover from the childhood of humanity, with about as much reality as, say, Santa Claus. Whether the religious claims are more literal (Moses parting the Red Sea) or more mystical (religion invovlves direct spiritual experience) modern science denies them all, simply because there is no credible empirical evidence for any of them. " # Experience

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine." # Imagination

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." # Language

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " Goodness is easier to recognize than to define." # Goodness

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." # Literary Criticism # Questions # Literature

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " To ask the hard question is simple." # Questions

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation." # Sin # Addiction # Love

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing? But nobody says this. The self-appointed unqualified nurse says: "You are to sing the patient a song which will make him believe that I, and I alone, can cure him. If you can't or won't, I shall confiscate your passport and send you to the mines." And the poor patient in his delirium cries: "Please sing me a song which will give me sweet dreams instead of nightmares. If you succeed, I will give you a penthouse in New York or a ranch in Arizona."" # Justice

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust." # Hatred

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman." # Conflict

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide." # Politicians and Politics

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