George Santayana Quotes on Intellect
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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is a queen, infinitely fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise.
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Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.