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Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

I look upon another’s insistence on the merits of his or her life – duties, intellect, accomplishment – and see that most of it is nonsense.