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View Quote Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, T. B. Saunders, trans., § 9

View Quote Arthur Schopenhauer, “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life,” Parerga und Paralipomena, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 331.

View Quote Artificial intelligence

View Quote As the saints and prophets were often forced to practise long vigils and fastings and prayers before their ecstasies would fall upon them and their visions would appear, so Virtue in its purest and most exalted form can only be acquired by means of severe and long continued culture of the mind. Persons with feeble and untrained intellects may live according to their conscience; but the conscience itself will be defective. … To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.

View Quote Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 92.

View Quote Bertrand Russell, cited in Jonathan Miller. (2004). A Brief History of Disbelief [TV-Series]. BBC Four.

View Quote Carlo Rubbia. The Brazilian magazine Veja asked Carlo Rubbia, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, “Do you believe in God?; reported in Evolution Is Not a Fact, Awake! magazine, 1998, 8/8.

View Quote Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfire, chapter XVII, p. 99.

View Quote Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

View Quote Cornel West, "Chekhov, Coltrane, and Democracy: Interview by David Lionel Smith." The Cornel West Reader (1998).

View Quote Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?

View Quote Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

View Quote Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, (2005)