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Aldous Huxley on Intelligence

1894–1963 England

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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

Brave New World Revisited (1958)

Twenty years ago it was still a compliment to say of a man that he was clever, cultivated, interested in the things of the mind. Today ‘highbrow’ is a term of contemptuous abuse. The fact is surely significant. In decent Anglo-Saxon society one may not be a highbrow.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

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