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What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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.

I can intellectualize myself out of anything.

I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.