Intellectual Passions
George Bernard Shaw "insists that there are passions far more exciting than the physical ones...'intellectual passion, mathematical passion, passion for discovery and exploration: the mightiest of all passions'". His contemporary, Sigmund Freud, argued for a continuity (not a contrast) between the two, physical and intellectual; commended the way "Leonardo had energetically sublimated his sexual passions into the passion for independent scientific research".
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