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She had found the answer to her affliction—conformity! She had already learned to conceal her intelligence. So many of us break our hearts before we learn that.

— Mark Clifton

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People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.

They'd Rather Be Right (1954)

Perhaps, in spite of her brilliance, she’s too young to realize the hostility of the world toward intelligence.

Somehow I got the impression that instead of looking into a crystal ball, they would be more inclined to look out of one.

Sense From Thought Divide (1955)

Instant acceptance of an idea is as self-defeating as instant rejection.

They'd Rather Be Right (1954)

It (objection to a machine that could think) was the hook used by the rabble rousers, whose monopoly of moral interpretation might be challenged.

They'd Rather Be Right (1954)

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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.

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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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