Intellectual Beings

Famous quotes containing the words intellectual beings, intellectual and/or beings:

    What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars.
    Orson Welles (1915–1984)