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The Warm Intellect
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If by intellectual we understand someone who works with their head and not with their hands, then a bank employee would be an intellectual and Michelangelo wouldn’t be.
For me an intellectual is someone who produces new understandings by mobilizing their creativity.
A peasant who, with a visionary effort, imagines a new kind of graft capable of producing new fruits, is an authentic creator of knowledge.
A philosophy professor, no matter how erudite, who repeats, year after year, the same course on Heidegger, hasn’t earned the title.
The key difference? Creativity.
~ Umberto Eco
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Pain changes shape, but it never disappears. You can’t control what hurts or breaks you, but you can control how you choose to move forward. Fight for what you love, because no one else will do it for you. Every moment in your life is an opportunity to change who you are. Don’t define yourself by what you lost, but by what you do with what’s left.
~ Keanu Reeves
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Anaïs Nin’s quote about warmth and softness versus coldness and brilliance resonates deeply within the context of the 1940s, a time when many sought simplicity and human connection in the wake of global conflict. Her…
