The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
One who cannot live in harmony with others is regarded as an ignorant fool, even if he happens to be very learned in various matters.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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