God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us on this side of the grave.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

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.

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience you can change things: countries structures economic models colonial states.

What we now call 'finance' is I hold an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini who works really really hard to get really really famous and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

My parents were both very intellectually honest straightforward and for them faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words or in exact and priggish argument.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature the texts our first attempt at cosmology making sense of where we are in the universe our first attempt at health care believing in faith healing our first attempt at philosophy.

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!