Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.
I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline
All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.
I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.
Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.
I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
I like the ability to engage intellectually with someone. I get so bored so quickly, so if you can't keep me interested, then I'm out.
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
My Jewishness and queerness are very interwoven, and, although they sometimes conflict culturally, intellectually and spiritually they deepen one another for me.
If you challenge multiculturalism you are seen to be a racist. But it's a political philosophy that needs to be looked at. If you don't, you're taking it on trust, which is intellectually dishonest.
I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.
Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.
Having the young people engaged, involved, and being the leaders themselves is a great way to capture them intellectually and emotionally.
The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics
Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.
I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us
I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.
Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.
The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.
There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect or apply scholarly thinking to art and culture.
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will . . . cure many current theological concerns.
This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually
I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.
Intellectually, I think everyone really knows that women are funny, but it's a weird thing that people keep trotting out.
I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.
Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.
To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or screenplay.
No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste.
A profession which is seen as intellectually glamorous is often the most misunderstood when it comes to the commerce involved.
I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.
Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
The assertion that the war in Iraq has had no role in increasing the terrorist threat to Britain is clearly just intellectually unsustainable.
Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.
The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.
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