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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

— Ezra Pound Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935)

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The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Guide to Kulchur (1938)

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

Not one man in a thousand can be aroused to an interest in economics until he definitely suffers from the effects of an evil system.

ABC of Economics (1933)

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

Socrates

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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