It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself who care little for his pursuits and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

It's obvious but perhaps worth saying that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven such as peace intelligence wisdom and happiness.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

On a level plain simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.