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But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
Terry Pratchett
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
Edward Thorndike
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.
Albert Einstein
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
J. K. Rowling
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
Sri Aurobindo
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler