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• How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [normal/human/intellect/human]
• Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [result/willpower/intellect]
• Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [intellect/sex/sex]
• Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [willpower/minus/intellect/vulgarity]
• 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. (Sydney Smith) [mankind/intellect/human]
• Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings. (Susan Sontag) [revenge/intellect/art/more]
• The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. (Oscar Wilde) [intellect/thing]
• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. (Oscar Wilde) [intellect]
• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego. (Alec Guinness) [personality/intellect//ego]
• “Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.” (Michelle Rodriguez) [think/intellect/knowledge]
• Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect. (Desi Arnaz) [intellectuals/intellect]
• What I look for in a guy is passion and ambition and there's nothing sexier than intellect, so hopefully that would be reciprocated. (Julia Stiles) [look/pleasure/intellect]
• “I am very impressed with his intellect, ... He strikes me as a good and decent person but he is still following instructions, which is to say as little as possible on some core issues about how he would decide cases.” (Barack Obama) [intellect]
• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei) [god/intellect]

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