The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. Jul 04, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. Jul 02, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this? Jun 18, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>