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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Intellect.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Literary Ethics.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Titmouse, line 65.
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Richard Dawkins, in The Economist, Vol. 328 (1993)
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Richard Dawkins, On Militant Atheism (February 2002)
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Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, Volume II, p. 361.
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She had found the answer to her affliction—conformity! She had already learned to conceal her intelligence. So many of us break our hearts before we learn that.
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She should be my counsellor,But not my tyrant. For the spirit needsImpulses from a deeper source than hers;And there are motions, in the mind of man,That she must look upon with awe.
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Simone Weil, Human Personality (1943), p. 68
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Simone Weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology (1986), p. 35
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Simone Weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology (1986), p. 35
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Simone Weil, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind (1949), p. 26
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Simone Weil, Letter to her parents, 1943
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So far as I can remember, there's not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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So-called good society recognizes every kind of claim but that of intellect, which is a contraband article; and people are expected to exhibit an unlimited amount of patience towards every form of folly and stupidity, perversity and dullness; while personal merit has to beg pardon, as it were, for being present, or else conceal itself altogether. Intellectual superiority offends by its very existence, without any desire to do so.