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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down; I am from the bottom up.

The role of the intelligence -- that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

If we look into ourselves, we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form. Could our minds be made visible, we should find them tailed.

You cannot be very smart if you have never done anything foolish.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its "great intellects.

Nothing matters except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphine: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the "higher life.

One definition of man is "an intelligence served by organs.