The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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