An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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.
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
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